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I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy,

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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This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades. – Elliot Richardson

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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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Focus on the simple, good things in life and breathe your way through the minor struggles. – Terri Guillemets, “Re-learning life,” 2002

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If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. – John McCarthy

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If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. – Allan Carr

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I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off. – Roy Keane

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