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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference."

"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike."

"This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock."

"The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain."

"He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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