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• There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

  Masiela Lusha

  Running, Blood, People

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Grateful, Important, Guests

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1074, Xist Publishing

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• Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Sauce, Too Much, Ingredients

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  Gary Oldman

  Travel, Interesting, Want

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• On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

  Keanu Reeves

  Good Night, Thinking, Keys

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• The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

  Scott Ritter

  People, Stranger, Receptive

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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• So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Home, Airplane

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• The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

  Jessica Savitch

  Fire, People, News

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• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  Herbert Spencer

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

  Layne Staley

  Rooms, Hotel Rooms, Hotel

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• The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

  Stendhal

  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

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• Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Drinking, Bars

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• When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

  Viktor Suvorov

  War, Flower, Patriotic

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• A hospital alone shows what war is.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Peace, War, Shows

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• I must follow them. I am their leader.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Military, Empowerment

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”

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• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  Beau Bridges

  Travel, Entertainment, Bars

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

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• Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

  Eboo Patel

  Compassion, Care, Stewardship

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• It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

  "A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander".

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• If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

  Buddy Holly

  Rocks, Play, Rock N Roll

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• It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Beach, People, House

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.125, Algonquin Books

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• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  Benjamin Zander

  Leadership, Jobs, Vision

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• If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

  Benito Mussolini

  Leadership, Reality, Giving

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• The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Vision, Hallmark

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.40, Basic Books

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• He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

  Charles James Fox

  Relationship, Leadership, Opinion

  On Pitt's scheme of Parliamentary Reform, in J. L. Hammond 'C. J. Fox' (1903) p. 75

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