"Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in."

Reagan, Ronald on status quo
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

Reagan, Ronald on recession
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"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Reagan, Ronald on poverty and the poor   

"Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."

Reagan, Ronald on pollution   

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

Becker, May L. on age and aging
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"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on heroes and heroism
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"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on reality   

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

Dylan, Bob on regret
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

Ruskin, John on humility
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"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

Mccloy, John (Jay) on humility
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"Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis."

The EMS Manager Newsletter on leadership
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead."

Hoagland, Edward on time   

"You are the music while the music lasts."

Eliot, T. S. on music
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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Shakespeare, William on insomnia
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"Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."

Shakespeare, William on farewells
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"War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. "

Cousins, Norman on uncategorised   

"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood."

Cousins, Norman on crisis
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"We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought."

Cousins, Norman on thoughts and thinking
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"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

Cousins, Norman on self-improvement   

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Cousins, Norman on purpose
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"The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose."

Cousins, Norman on purpose   

"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

Cousins, Norman on libraries
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on freedom
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

Cousins, Norman on laughter
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."

Socrates on humor
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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

Socrates on influence
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"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

Socrates on humankind
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"Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates on happiness
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on growth
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