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  The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.

  Michael Scott

  Opposites, Volunteer, Car

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• All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Years, Nuclear

  "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.

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• If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

  Harold Geneen

  Jobs, Desks, Clutter

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• If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

  Tom Peters

  Nuts, Clean Desk, Desks

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Typewriters, Woe

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Gentleman, Obscurity

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Small Man, Stills

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

  Michael Scott

  Diversity, Principles, Racist

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• Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, People, Dating

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• Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

  Steve Carell

  Writing, World, Want

  "The Office: The Negotiation". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

  Steve Carell

  Fool Me Once, Three, Strikes

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• I assumed office to bring the EU to a point from which there is no going back. Instead, I am having to unwind the EU to a certain extent.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Unwind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.

  Tim Kaine

  Kids, Passion, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

  George W. Bush

  Important, Democratic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In the office, I actually act quite demented the whole day. Like Monty Python. That's my favorite kind of humor. My assistants sometimes ask me to leave.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Kind, Sometimes, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to love the office and you have to love our country and what is going on right now.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Country

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

  Mitch Albom

  Book, Years, Window

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• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

  Dean Acheson

  Work, Doe, Employment

  In Time 22 Dec. 1952

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• You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

  Rob Lowe

  Want

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

  Moby

  Crazy, Trying, Republican

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Science, Simple

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• What did I know, what did I know
  of love's austere and lonely offices?

  Robert Hayden

  Lonely, Knows

  "ThoseWinter Sundays" l. 10 (1962)

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• If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Cities, Effort

  Frank Moore Colby (1904). “Imaginary Obligations”

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• Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

  Thomas More

  Campaigns, Public Office

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