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“Managers control. Leaders create commitment.”

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John Peter Zenger was a prominent American journalist, born on October 26, 1697, and died on July 28, 1746. He is known for his role in the fight for press freedom in the colonial period of New York, serving as a symbol of early American freedom of the press. more

“But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.”

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Author:Hermann Goring

“In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.”

Humans Lasts Games Winning Mistake Pieces Computer Opponents Blunders Do It Yourself One Mistake

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.”

Sometimes Quality Quantity

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep at night are to the comfortable sound of my parents' voices, voices which conveyed in their tones the message that these two people loved and trusted one another.”

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Author:Jill Ker Conway

“First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.”

Firsts Left Catholic Jew Communist Homosexual Protestants

Author:Martin Niemoller

“Our ultimate destination is mental peace.”

Ultimate Destination Mental Peace

Author:Bikram Choudhury

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.”

Mind Facts Problem Causes Imagine Mystery Terrible Weak Terrified Unbalanced Supernatural Powers

Book:Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James

Source: Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James

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