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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ↗

— Tony Blair

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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. ↗

— Tony Blair

#conversations #decision #difficult #everybody #frank

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. ↗

— Paul Valery

#artist #finishes #his #merely #never

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. ↗

— Tony Blair

#children #contemplate #entire #entire lives #first

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#big #come #everyone #hats #mexicans

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. ↗

— Tony Blair

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