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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
  -- Gen. George S. Patton, "War As I Knew It", 1947...
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
  -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr....
• Never tell them what you wouldn't do. -- Adam Clayton Powell
• I don't know what's wrong with people! All I ask them to do is exactly what I tell them.
• Barclay: "Do you suppose this has changed the way people think about me?
  LaForge: "Well, to tell you the truth, Reg, we don't know what to think....
• The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohe
• It's not what you tell people, it's what you show them.
• REPUBLICANS do as their lobbyists tell them to