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“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
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“Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.”
Source : Source: www.strategy-business.com
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“The dice are stacked against them”
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“Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”
Source : "We Need Wilderness". National Parks Magazine, January - March 1946.
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“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”
Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.22, Faber & Faber
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“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.”
Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
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“Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.”
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“Suppose whether or not someone tells me a lie depends only on whether he wants to, but he is morally indifferent, he doesn't care much about the truth or about me, and his self interest, which he worships, tells him to lie, and so it comes about that given his psychology, it is a forgone conclusion that he will lie to me. I think in this case he is still blameworthy, and that implies, among other things, that he did something he ought not do.”
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“When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.”
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“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”
Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010. 
