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Conflict
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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Difficulty
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The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision--whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Equality
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Failure
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Fear
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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Freedom
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Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Government
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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Greatness & Great Things
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To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.
When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.
Greatness comes in simple trappings.
-Richard Milhous Nixon, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969
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Hate
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Identity
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Leadership
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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Medicine
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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Moon
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This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Music
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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Peace
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Politics
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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Public
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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Reason
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Regret & Remorse
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When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Books by and about Richard Milhous Nixon