"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history."

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Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.11, Open Road Media

David Rockefeller

#Successful Quotes #Community Quotes #Historical Quotes

“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”
“Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.”
“I should like to be famous and unknown.”
“I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”
“When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.”
“Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.”
“To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.”
“The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.”

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