"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done"

-- Vance Packard

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“A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.”
“He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!”

Source : Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.
“While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.”
“What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.”
“Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.”

Source : "Q&A with Lene Hau". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. March 17, 2007.
“I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.”

Source : Francesca Marciano (1999). “Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa”, Vintage Books
“There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.”
“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.”

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