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“What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.”

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Book:Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...

Source: Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.”

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Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.”

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Author:Bill Lipschutz

“A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.”

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Author:Orlan

“The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.”

“What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.”

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Author:Hudson Taylor

“The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.”

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Book:Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

Source: Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

“The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.”

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Author:Patrick Lencioni