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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Past, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
  To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Crime, Worst

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334

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• I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Saws, Ends

  "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich, (Ch. 86), c. 1393.

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• There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy...
  All you need is love.

  John Lennon

  Life, Song, Games

  "Song: All You Need Is Love (Magical Mystery Tour)". July 7, 1967.

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• I do not love thee less for what is done,
  And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
  Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
  My love will have a sense of pity in it,
  Making it less a worship than before.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Weakness, Worship

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
  That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
  My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
  Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
  Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Heart, Tears

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

  Mick Jagger

  Music, Courses

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Jazz

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• I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Should Have, Littles

  "The Duke Ellington Reader".

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• All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

  Jack Teagarden

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

  Kevin Heath

  Children, Parenting, Thinking

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• The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Years, Wish

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• At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

  Robert Frost

  Relationship, Money, Issues

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Jobs, Humanity

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.2, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Men, Religion

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.177, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Karma, Respect

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Life, Inspiring, Beautiful

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

  Albert Einstein

  Humble, Science, Be Humble

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• I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

  Carl Hoppe

  Life, Strength, Integrity

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• How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Ties, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Work, Thinking

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• If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

  Ron Stevens

  Work, Should, Ifs

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• In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

  Mark Twain

  Work, Mean, Loss

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Work, Hands

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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