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• You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.

  Dave Ramsey

  Real, Moving, Passion

  Dave Ramsey (2011). “EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative.

  Terry Shintani

  Book, People, Important

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• The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.

  Johann Hari

  Pain, War, Thinking

  "Johann Hari: 'I failed badly. When you harm people, you should shut up, go away and reflect on what happened'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2015.

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• Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

  Jay Samit

  Flow, Disruption, Models

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Names, Long, Shining

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• Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

  Princess Diana

  Pain, Hate, Loneliness

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• All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Mean, Warrior

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• You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

  Russell Baker

  Smile, Opportunity, Feel Good

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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

  Zhuangzi

  Hate, Heart, Loss

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• God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

  Erwin McManus

  Real, Fire, Self

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The leading cause of death is birth.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Birth, Leading Causes

  "Selling Death" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

  Tommy Chong

  Night, Trying, Looks

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• Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

  Ashley Montagu

  Dream, Attitude, Thinking

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• The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. . . . It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Thinking, Mind, Moksha

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Joy, Enemy, Misery

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• The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Appreciation, Misery, Isolation

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.260, Transaction Publishers

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• All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come, man's intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace. ...let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Light, Blood

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• Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Mean, Doctors

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• In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband and wife. If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Husband, Fall, Divorce

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• If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Hatred, Baha, Division

  "Religious, Not Just Spiritual" by Laura Weinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.

  Chris Cagle

  Life Is Short, Goes On, Chicks

  Song: Chicks Dig It, Album: Chris Cagle, 2003

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• I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us and tells us how we should live or who we should be. People do things just 'cause everyone else does and then they wonder why they feel empty all the time. Someone who has a firm stance in what they know to be true will empower empty followers to discover who they are as individuals with purposes and this creates leaders with voices of their own.

  Lacey Mosley

  Voice, People, Sick

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• There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.

  Edie Brickell

  Hate, Fighting, Night

  "Song: Nothing (Album: Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars)". 1988.

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• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Our World, Essence, Ideas

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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