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Quotes by Leader

"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise."

"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance."

"I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart."

"Maritime sector not only creates and facilitates economic activities; it also connects countries and civilisations.""

"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."

"While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made."

"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."

"Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP."

"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."

"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."

"Neem coating of urea ensured corruption stops and farmers get the urea that they need."

"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

"It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
Home,

"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown."
Will,

"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."

"I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one."

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more."

"I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal."

"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."

"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."

"We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began."
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