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" Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. "

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" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "

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