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  1. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
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  2. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
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  3. Jane Austen _ Persuasion

    My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.
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  4. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;"
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  5. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
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  6. Robert A. Caro _ Means of Ascent

    A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, "They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.
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  7. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
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  8. William Shakespeare _ Henry V

    When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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  9. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
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  10. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
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  11. Desmond Tutu

    Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
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