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“Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
― Mother Teresa

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.”
― Sun Tzu

“Some leaders are born women.”
― Geraldine Ferraro

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”
― Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1874-1904

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe