"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.“
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
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"War settles nothing."
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