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Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another…
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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all…
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To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the…
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Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That…
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
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Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
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Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an…
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in…
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
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In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no…
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Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt…
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do…
— Zhuangzi
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I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years…
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For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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