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Quotes by Leader
"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
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"The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons."
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"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."
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"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
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"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
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"Yoga is a vision for a harmonious future for humanity. It is an "??????" i.e. a state of mind not "????????"."
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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
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"When you judge someone you have no time to love them."
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"Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally."
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"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?"
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"Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."
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"To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding."
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"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
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"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
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"To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face."
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