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| A Lesson For Leaders
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
-- Edmund Burke
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| Beauty and Ugliness
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
-- Friedrich ...
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| Good Judgment
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
-- Will Rogers
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| Achieving Greatness
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| Admitting Errors
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
-- Dale Turner
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| Religion, Terror, Rape
Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi viewed women held captive at a Syrian house as his private property, and forced himself upon a number of them, including the American hostage Kayla Mueller.
As systematic rape becomes an increasingly powerful recruiting ...
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| Well Breed
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
-Mark Twain
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| Awkward Silence
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
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| Bankrupt Socialist
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
-Margaret Thatcher
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| Citizenship
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
-Billy Graham
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| Harmony
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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| Inside Mood
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
-- Blaise Pascal
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| Wrong Weather
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
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| True Love
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
-Mignon McLaughlin
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| Root of Civilization
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
-Orson Welles
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| Soul Sucking
I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.
-Robert ...
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| Love Thyself?
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
-Thomas Merton
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| Battle for Life
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-e. e. cummings
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| Government Funding
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
-Will Rogers
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| Internal Destruction
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
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| Tech Education
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
-Bill Gates
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| Strength Developed
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| Politicians?
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
-Benjamin Franklin
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| Economy Cliff Notes
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan
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| Potential
It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
-Benjamin Carson
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