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

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

"It is the people that are angry at the status quo that makes a decision to bring change."

"Be a leader and be a transformer !When you get the opportunity to lead, remember it is a noble opportunity not just to amass followers, but to nurture true and great leaders who can do even greater things than you did! That never wipes off your footprints!"

"If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder."

"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."

"A true leader is the one who leaves memorable footprints of nobility. A leader who is decisive enough and have all the guts to take bold and frank decisions regardless of the oppositions and the temporal adverse effect of such decision on the masses, knowing that in the end, the fruits of such decision will be sweeter enough to put joy on the faces of the masses and they shall remember such noble footprints and ponder in humility."

"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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"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."


"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."


"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."


"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."


"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."


"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."


"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."


"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."


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