Quote by Elliot Richardson
The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a pr

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. – Elliot Richardson

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. – Elliot Richardson

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Failure
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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? – Elliot Richardson

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legal
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I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. Thats an attitude Ive carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. – Elliot Richardson

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Attitude
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. – Anthony de Mello

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Ive heard that, but since Im computer illiterate I dont know how it all works. But since Im on Prodigy tonight, Im learning a lot through my typist, Peter. – Bobby Sherman

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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. – Thomas Fuller

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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. – Thomas Szasz

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