My father, who was from a wealthy

“My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.”

— George Weinberg

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Category: graduation
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals

“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”

— Walter Lippmann

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Category: intelligence
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We have treated our most serious adversaries,

“We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner – by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.”

— Theodore C. Sorensen

Author: Theodore C. Sorensen
Category: leadership
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