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A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

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George S. Patton (1885-1945) American soldier
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 284 (1820)
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast, and specific decision.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) American historian and author
The Guns of August, ch. 9 (1962)
 
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Postscriptum de Ma Vie [Victor Hugo’s Intellectual Autobiography] (1907) [tr. O’Rourke]
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