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- Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most…
- Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads…
- Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and…
- There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals.…
- A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and…
- A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the…
- ...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question…
- To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong