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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity… — Warren G. Bennis
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. — Francis of Assisi
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama
Being single can pave the way for new opportunities. — Selena Gomez
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a… — Linus Pauling
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly. — Henry Taube
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden
I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman. — Kate Hudson
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed. — Jeffrey Katzenberg
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new… — Freeman Dyson
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor… — Og Mandino
I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you… — Kristen Wiig
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… — Thomas Jefferson
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… — Samuel Johnson

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