He gave me the feeling that he had better things to do than deal with me.

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If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

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He was afraid that he hired people who were at least as smart as he was and that they were going to do better things than he could do, as Bardeen and Brattain had done at Bell Labs.

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In spite of his frustrations, Kinzer says he'd enlist again if he had to do it over, because he says it helped make him a better leader.

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Those were not the only times Mr. Obama may have overestimated himself: he has also had a habit of warning new hires that he would be able to do their jobs better than they could.

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So if Obama intends to do something on immigration reform, he had better hurry.

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He will surely be even better able to do it again, having had the past few years to squirrel away his weapons of mass destruction programs and cover his tracks.

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