"Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along."

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“You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.”

“Learn to disagree without being disagreeable.”

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