"The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure."
-Dee Dee Myers
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"While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.“
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"Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity."
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"As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes."
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"My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-Robert E. Lee
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