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“I have a great office.”

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Author:R. L. Stine

“Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.”

People Knows Shows Office Treats Encouragement Rewards Satisfaction Loyalty Being True Great Office

Author:Ricky Gervais

“When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.”

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Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.”

Source: Foreign & Colonial Speeches

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.”

Mind Firsts Suffering Heaven Grace Exercise Office Bones Toil Great Office

Author:Mencius

“In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.”

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Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.”

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Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.”

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Author:Malcolm Fraser

“When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.”

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Author:William Hague

“When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.”

Men Giving Fall Understanding Virtue Talent Taste Office Every Man Lifts Temper Niche Great Talent Great Office

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

Men Mind Firsts Body Suffering Heaven Poverty Subjects Exercise Office Method Hunger Extremes Bones Toil Supplies Undertakings Extreme Poverty Great Office

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Great offices will have great talents.”

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Book:The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry

Source: The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry