"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view."

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Source : George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

George H. W. Bush

#Patriotic Quotes #Views Quotes #Guy Quotes

“The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.”
“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”
“A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went”
“All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.”
“Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?”
“The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.”
“Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.”
“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”

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