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If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#american people #anyway #approach #back #been

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#areas #bottleneck #decision #delegate #down

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#bad #bad breath #breath #days #give

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#certain #doubts #fanatics #fools #full

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#caused #fear #half #mankind #moralist

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#commonest #endured #greater #livelihood #marriage

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#either #else #every #found #justification

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #arc #betray #between #career

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. ↗

— Richard Russo

#american life #class #effects #enduring #life

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#been #character #costume #i #imagination