Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing. - Bob Kerrey - Quotesmemo.com

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Bob Kerrey

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

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Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

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Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

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There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

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When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

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I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.

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