"As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers."

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Robert S. Kaplan

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
“I think this is a line in the sand for many Quebecers and Canadians: That if you're going to give services or receive services, your face should be uncovered.”

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“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”
“I do things my own way!..so don't give me any lip about it!..”
“I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.”
“Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.”
“My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.”
“What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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