Chuck Hagel Quotes
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.
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I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
