As a businesswoman, I understand that sometimes not all your customers are right.

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As a maker of integrated circuits--a business Corning did not understand--its products were sometimes obsolete before they were ever manufactured.

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Sometimes we focus on the twigs in the forest, not even the trees, to understand that we're, again, likely one step closer to seeing comprehensive health care reform that we've had Presidents talk about for 70 years.

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It was a ploy of theirs to pretend not to understand, to frown and simulate confusion because, in any conversation, it was convenient sometimes to appear to be at a loss.

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