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“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
— Ralph Nader
“Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”
— Denis Waitley
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
— William Shakespeare
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Well done, is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“Trust is the glue that holds people together and is the lubricant that keeps an organization moving forward.”
— Colin Powell
“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”
— Edsger Dijkstra
“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.”
— Mason Cooley
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
— Brian Tracy
“We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.”
— Max Planck
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
— Oscar Wilde
“If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”
— Tim Cook
“To be alive - is Power.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.”
— John Charles Polanyi
“We become brave by doing brave acts.”
— Aristotle
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.”
— Seungsahn
“Microsoft didn't kill Linux on the Desktop... Apple did.”
— CmdrTaco
“Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
— A.A. Milne

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