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“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”

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Book:Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
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“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. (“Buying now, dying later”)”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie
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“Whenever we come across a famous painting by an acclaimed artist, we tend to reason with ourselves. That it ought to be good, for everyone thinks highly of it. But had we not known who the artist was, we wouldn’t have appreciated the work that much. We don’t know whom this society and the media would put on a pedestal next. It could very well be you.”

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Book:The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.”

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Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
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“Il regarde les gens autour de lui, écoute leurs conversations, suppute, pour chacun, ses chances d’échapper à sa condition présente. Les clochards, les vrais, c’est râpé. Les employés, les secrétaires, qui viennent à l’heure du déjeuner manger un sandwich sur un banc, ils auront de l’avancement mais n’iront pas bien loin, d’ailleurs ils n’imaginent même pas d’aller bien loin. Les deux jeunes types à têtes d’intellectuels qui discutent et couvrent d’annotations, avec l’air de se prendre très au sérieux, les feuillets dactylographiés de ce qui doit être un scénario : ils doivent y croire, à leurs dialogues à la con, à leurs personnages à la con, et peut-être qu’ils ont raison d’y croire, peut-être qu’ils y arriveront, peut-être qu’ils connaîtront Hollywood, les piscines, les starlettes, et la cérémonie des Oscars. La tribu de Portoricains, en revanche, qui déploie sur la pelouse tout un campement de couvertures, de transistors, de bébés, de thermos... : ceux-là, on peut être sûr qu’ils resteront où ils sont. Encore que... qui sait? Peut-être que leur bébé braillard, à la couche pleine de merde, fera grâce à leurs sacrifices de formidables études et deviendra prix Nobel de médecine ou secrétaire général de l’ONU. Et lui, Édouard, avec son jean blanc et ses idées noires, que va-t-il devenir?”

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Author:Emmanuel Carrère
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“Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.”

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Book:Healology
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“And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that of isolation: but the silence of many - silence multiplied - and above all the silence of a crowd - these are supernatural burdens, whose inexplicable weight brings dread to the mightiest soul.”

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Book:The Treasure of the Humble
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“Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command functions normally and as one expects, there is nothing to be seen of the sting; it is hidden and unsuspected and may only reveal its existence by some faint, scarcely perceptible recalcitrance before the command obeyed.”

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Book:Crowds and Power
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