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Sam Walton

Sam Walton

Outstanding leaders go out of

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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MIT Assasination Club slogan

MIT Assasination Club slogan

To err is human; to

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

It is easier to find

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
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Sam Walton

Sam Walton

High expectations are the key

High expectations are the key to everything.
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Voltaire

Voltaire

I was never ruined but

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
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John L. Jackley

John L. Jackley

Today, a successful Congressman has

Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....
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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

It is better to create

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
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William H. Walton

William H. Walton

To carry a grudge is

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
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Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

No one who has read

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
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H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken

Creator: a comedian whose audience

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
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Basil S. Walsh

Basil S. Walsh

If you don't know where

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there
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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

If you must break the

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
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Murray Edelman

Murray Edelman

Political history is largely an

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
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Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Sleep is lovely, death is

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

I have lived long enough

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
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Basil S. Walsh

Basil S. Walsh

We don't need more strength

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
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Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Every man is wise when

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

I had rather be first

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
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Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

I can't complain, but sometimes

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
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Sonjay Anand

Sonjay Anand

The purpose of a liberal

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

If the headache would only

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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