Quote by Colin Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell

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In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people thats called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. – Colin Powell

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legal
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What youre seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and theyre directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. – Colin Powell

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Society
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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. – Colin Powell

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Peace
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Failure
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. – Luc de Clapiers

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Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Failure

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. – Michael Crawford

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Failure

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist. – John Sherman Cooper

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Failure

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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Poetry

The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on. – Joseph French Johnson

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Gold

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. – Doug Collins

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Sports

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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respect