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Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

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Gerald R. Ford
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 14
Died: 2006
Died: December 26
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I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.
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The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.
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The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
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In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
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A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
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I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
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I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
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The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
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There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.
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The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
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Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
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Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
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