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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
Fire
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
Resilience
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
Crisis
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
Honesty
"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."
Education
"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
Politics
"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
Death
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
Politics
"Cynicism is humor in ill health."
Health
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
Time
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