"Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal."

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Source : Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Garry Wills

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“I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Popsugar, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.
“I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.”

Source : 'The Religion of Protestants' (1637)
“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“Look at the sky. Itâ€™s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.”
“Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a ***** brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.”
“Youâ€™re walking down lifeâ€™s road, societyâ€™s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you canâ€™t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.”
“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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