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"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."
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"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."

"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."

"A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest."

"Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes."

"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working."

"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."

"If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin."

"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."

"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women."

"A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns."

"I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real."

"I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons."
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