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"The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command."
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"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."

"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."

"Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top!"

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!"

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk."

"I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe."

"Ortez sauntered over to the nearest wall intercom. "Bridge, this is the captain -- what the hell's going on up there? I didn't schedule a combat drill for today." Hell, it occurred to him -- he hadn't scheduled any kind of drill for at least four months. On the other end of the line, young 2nd lieutenant Cedric Pankow, the com officer, let it fall."
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"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
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