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Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great… — Lance Secretan
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a… — Henri Nouwen
To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps. — Percy Cerutty
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in… — Robert Kennedy
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one… — Mikhail Bakunin
The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity… — James A. Baldwin
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power,… — Black Elk
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them. — Jacob Bronowski
Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man… — John Brown
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To… — Erma Bombeck
There are no great enologists. Only good grapes — Michel Rolland
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a… — Thomas Jefferson
We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like,… — Hank Green
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the… — John Dewey
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the… — Albert Einstein
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to… — Jules Feiffer
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling… — E. M. Forster
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France
The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into… — Unknown Author
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is… — Zora Neale Hurston
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. — Robert M. Hutchins
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with… — Chief Joseph
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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