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• Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

  Max De Pree

  Pain, Leader, Able

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Lying, Errors

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Ifs

  "Netanyahu warns west against Iranian president Rouhani's charm offensive" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Needs, Defense

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• And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

  Paul Simon

  Doubt, Belief, Knows

  Song: Kathy's Song, Album: The Paul Simon Songbook

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• When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Believe, Character

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• It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.

  Patsy Mink

  Mean, Cutting, Important

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• What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Three, Done, Forget

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.37, Northwestern University Press

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• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Sarah Zettel

  Night, People, Trying

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• All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.

  Lewis Hyde

  Creativity, Thinking, Artist

  Lewis Hyde (2010). “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

  A. C. Dixon

  Jesus, Philosophy, Men

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• It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

  Charles Bolden

  Vastness, Limitless, Humans

  "Scientists: We're 'very close' to finding another Earth" By Suzanne Presto, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2014.

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• Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Fighting, Men

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1921). “The Quimby Manuscripts”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Remember You, Remembers You, Tree

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p.609, 1895.

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• The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Character, Literature

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Mark, Willing

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Growing Up, Color, Skins

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• The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, People, Investing

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• A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

  Du Fu

  Wind, Sky, Two

  Du Fu, “I Stand Alone”

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• It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

  Reginald Rose

  Believe, Deals, Ifs

  Reginald Rose (1983). “Twelve angry men: a play in three acts”, Rourke Publishing

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• Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Football, Exercise, Fighting

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• Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fall, Giving, Weight

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.149, Shambhala Publications

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Blow

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• If I stand alone, It does not mean, I am any less a Human, If my arms do not hold another, It does not mean, They are incapable of holding, If my tongue is silent, And never speaks the words of Love, It does not mean, That it will be mute, When the time comes, That the words can sincerely be spoken. And just because the World, Has not yet introduced, The one that will share my Life, It certainly does not mean, That I am incapable, Of Loving.

  Javan

  Mean, Doe, World

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