"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Inspirational Quotes #Past Quotes #World Quotes

“The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.53, Routledge
“We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.”
“If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.”
“The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.”

Source : "The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.
“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
“Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”
“I actually wanted to be a tennis player.”

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