"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

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Source : Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

John F. Kennedy

#Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #Country Quotes

“Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.”

Source : Noel M. Tichy (2009). “The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at E”, p.3, Harper Collins
“The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.”
“I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.”
“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.”
“You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in the world. I remember a little of waht being alive was like, and if I could touch that again, even for a day, it would be worth anything in the world. Even dying again, forever. All the centuries I've known and all the marvels I've seen don't compare to being alive." ~from Evernight, by”
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
“At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.”
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacleâ€”the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller

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