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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.: Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.: Cullen Hightower
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.: Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Life is just a bowl of pits.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
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If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Hold a true friend with both hands.: Nigerian Proverb
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)