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- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
- Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
- The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
- Charles Sorenson
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
- Isadora Duncan
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
- Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
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