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• Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

  Dennis Prager

  Kids, Careers, Soul

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• Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Matter, Faces, Facing The Truth

  "What's So Great About America". Book by Dinesh D'Souza. Chapter 6: "America the Beautiful", 2002.

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• Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Differences, Leader

  "'What Needs to Be Done', Peter Drucker On Leadership". Interview with Rich Karlgaard in Forbes magazine, November 19, 2004.

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• Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Running, Lying, Mistake

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• In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Contemplative Life, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

  Thomas Merton

  Mercy Of God, Ashes, Ash Wednesday

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Meditations on liturgy”

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• What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Free Gifts, Perfection

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Talking, Perfection, Vision

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• Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dog, Half, Want

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• Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Essentials, Hunger And Thirst

  "Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1924.

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• If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

  Herb Kelleher

  Leadership, People, Done

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• And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

  Elon Musk

  Morning, Things In Life, Awful

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• We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

  Richard Branson

  People, Greed, Leader

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• However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Mind, Bigs

  Richard Branson (1998). “Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way”, Crown Pub

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• You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Phones, Androids

  "Ballmer Thinks You Have To Be A Computer Scientist To Use Android" by Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

  Wyatt Earp

  Fighting, Gun, Fine

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• Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Order, Class

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

  Maria Cantwell

  Law, United States, Trials

  "The Anderson Cooper 360° Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 7, 2009.

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• The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

  Debbie Stabenow

  America, Discipline, Long

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Should, Certain

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

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• The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, Texas, People

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• As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Identity, Information, Financial

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• There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

  Alexander McQueen

  Balance, Satisfaction, Financial

  "Alexander McQueen obituary" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

  Alexander McQueen

  Behinds, Theatrics

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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