"Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader."

-- Leymah Gbowee

#Fighting Quotes #People Quotes #Leader Quotes

“In the United States especially, politics and economics donâ€™t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.44, Harper Collins
“Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.”

Source : "The Mystery of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2018.
“A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.”

Source : "The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation Is an Endangered Species in Colorado" by David Petersen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.
“You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.”
“The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.”

Source : "My Letter to the Internet" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.
“I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.”
“Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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