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

"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."

"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."

"Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent."

"The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence."

"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."

"Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job."

"Those who become successful are those who have decided to 'take the bull by the horns."

"A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere."

"One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."
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"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."


"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."


"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."


"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."


"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."


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


"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."


"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."


"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."
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