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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
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Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.
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The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.
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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.
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Decision-making is lonely.
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We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.
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Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
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It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.
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With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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