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Irving Babbitt

"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."

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Donna Grant

"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."

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Donna Grant

"The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence."

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Donna Grant

"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."

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Donna Grant

"Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job."

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"Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--""--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was."

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Donna Grant

"Those who become successful are those who have decided to 'take the bull by the horns."

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Irving Babbitt
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."

Society

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Irving Babbitt
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."

Power

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Irving Babbitt
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."

Being

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Irving Babbitt
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."

Happiness

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Irving Babbitt
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."

Faith

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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."

Science

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Irving Babbitt
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."

Leadership

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"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."

Failure

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