"Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us."

-- Irvin D. Yalom

#Stars Quotes #Fate Quotes #Power Quotes

“I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.”
“I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.7, Westminster John Knox Press
“Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Arenâ€™t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbookâ€”if in danger of evaporating, make sure youâ€™re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.”
“You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.”
“Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.”
“When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.”

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