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Major Quotes by James MacGregor Burns
- To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes…
- Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
More Major Quotes
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. — Douglas Adams
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker
- My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. — Russell Banks
- 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. — Scott Adams
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
- Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a… — Robert Benchley
- The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson