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“I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.”

Years I Can Care Leadership Justice Responsibility Leader History Generations Health Integrity Ethics Health Care Disability Uniforms Taking Responsibility Facility Lack Of Integrity

Author:Eric Shinseki

“You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.”

Knows I Can Eye Given Family History Letters Delight Pursuit Trunks Zest

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”

I Can Acting History Watergate

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.”

I Can Book Use Social Poor History Injustice Aids Nonsense Social Service

Author:Evita Peron

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

I Can Past Beautiful Time Emotion Beauty History Notes Realising Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Emotional Love

Book:The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

“I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.”

I Can History Promise Sincere

Book:Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann

Source: Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann

“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”

I Can History Independent

Book:Women impressionists

Source: Women impressionists

“I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.”

Thinking I Can Facts Pain Women My Own History Conviction Honestly God Love Strongest Scholar Theologian My Own Life Presence Of God

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."”

People I Can Sound Silence History Terrible Can Not Drowning

Author:Eva Hart