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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."
"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens."
"As you read in The Art of Being, having a heart of service and generosity is a powerful state of being and a positive way to make a great first impression through valuing others. "Service Beyond Self" encourages you to take deliberate action steps to rise above self-interest and ask what you can do for others, not what they can do for you."
"Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent."
"The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence."
"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."
"Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job."
"Those who become successful are those who have decided to 'take the bull by the horns."
"A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere."
"One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."
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"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."
"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."
"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."
"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"
"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
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