"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

-- Euripides

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“It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.”

Source : "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010.
“To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”
“I've been so in my moment about my life.”
“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”

Source : "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners Don't Understand How Vulnerable Freedom Is'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2011.
“The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!”
“Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.”
“imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...”
“Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.”

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