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One cannot govern with 'buts'. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something. ↗

— Boy George

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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. ↗

— Henry George

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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. ↗

— Wally Lamb

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No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗

— Norman Lamm

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I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly. ↗

— Norman Lamm

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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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