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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Live Life, Mean

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

Love, Pregnancy, Might

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

"Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

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Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

Thomas Jefferson

Majority Rule, Tyranny Of The Majority, Minorities

First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

Amelie Mauresmo

Sports, Firsts, Tough

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In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Jerry Brown

People, Salary, Ends

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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Vernor Vinge

Developers, Proceeding

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Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.

Darren Johnson

Years, Realizing, Knows

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As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charlie Daniels

Government, Doors, California

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Mark Twain

Life, Focus, Vision

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Clarence Darrow

Real, Trying, Trials

"My trials by jury service" by Rick Gekoski, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

Women, Valentine's Day, Nine

Pride and Prejudice ch. 6 (1813)

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

Julius Caesar

Military, Bad Ass, Law

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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Violence, Non Violence, Militancy

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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

Political, Politics, Nine

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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

John B. S. Haldane

Success, Nature, Congratulations

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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

Money, Men, Counterfeit

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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dean Kamen

Technology, Innovation, Important

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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Ustinov

Courage, Information, Cowardice

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Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

R. Lee Ermey

Fifteen, Seven Days, Week

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Leon Trotsky

Lasts, England, Revolutionary

Leon Trotsky (1974). “Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain”

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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

Sonia Sotomayor

Heart, Law, Conclusion

"Another Day Of Questions For Sotomayor". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 15, 2009.

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I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Punishment, People, Trials

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