Now we have to take it further: always with an eye to the future, always maintaining the coalition of the decent and the disadvantaged that got us here, always recognising that in politics if you aren't adventurous, you may never know failure, but neither are you likely to be acquainted with success.

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The best leaders have always understood that they have to be intimately acquainted with all elements of their organizations.

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Americans of the immediate prewar era continued to be more closely acquainted with death than are their twenty-firstcentury counterparts.

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And with a maximum of six months to go before an election, getting the winner acquainted with the voting public will be no easy task.

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Another element of such systems can be the assistance of high-tech companies, keen for the likely high earners of the future to get acquainted with their products.

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