"Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened."

-- Orison Swett Marden

#Men Quotes #Excellence Quotes #Common Quotes

“When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.”
“before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.”
“So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.”
“The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.”
“My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!”
“-'I don't see what good it's going to do for you to waltz back in there and--' -'Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz.”
“Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.”
“If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.”

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