"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on failure
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you. [Psalm 25:12]"

Bible on direction
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on liberty
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"

Lincoln, Abraham on power   

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Lincoln, Abraham on slavery
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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in."

Lincoln, Abraham on charity
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"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

Cohen, Leonard on depression
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"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"

Cohen, Leonard on behavior   

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these."

Carver, George Washington on service
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side."

Proverb, Jewish on fools and foolishness
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"You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family."

Baker, Anita on family
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"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on faith   

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Einstein, Albert on gratitude
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"And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."

Einstein, Albert on destiny
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."

Einstein, Albert on america
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"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

Jefferson, Thomas on education
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"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]"

Bible on enemies
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"Every solution breeds new problems."

Bloch, Arthur on resolution
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Hugo, Victor on life
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"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Byrne, Frankie on respectability
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"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

Michelangelo on master
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"No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you -- he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman."

Zangwill, Israel on america   

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled."

Zangwill, Israel on christians and christianity