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Our human center does not lie in ourselves, but in the authority to which we submit. We do not arrive at well-being by our own productive activity, but by passive obedience and the ensuing approval by the authority. We have a leader
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“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― The American Crisis
― The American Crisis
“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”
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but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”
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“An organization is not, like an animal, an end in itself, and successful by the mere act of perpetuating the species. An organization is an organ of society and fulfills itself by the contribution it makes to the outside environment.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
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“it is never a waste to write for intrinsic reasons. First of all, writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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