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"If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them."
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"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
"How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?"
"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
"If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to."
"It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
"Development has to be achieved collectively and it has to be quick paced and inclusive."
"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
"LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love."
"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
"Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao."
"Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger."
"As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'"
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