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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

Language Leader Visionary Must Idealist Talk Practical Realist

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer

Free Fire Feel Escape Even Pan

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades. Gary North

Man Communism Socialism People Simply Without Testosterone

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cities Statues Parks Committees Found

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. Jane Smiley

Life Example Beauty Changing Worthy Unpredictability Object Horse Mystery Generosity Contemplation Also Metaphor Repeated Discovered Itself Ever

We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens. Jay Parini

Life Freedom Religion Rights Liberty Quilt Values Degree Nation Way Immigrants Citizens More Individual Colors Individual Liberty Freedom Of Religion Over Equal Equal Rights Genuinely Mobility Than Prizes Upward Upward Mobility Centuries Create Reasonable Many Two

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. Jessica Valenti

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. John Ruskin

Love Minds Those Thoughtful Purest Colour Most Which

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John le Carre

Love You Love Is Whatever Betray Betrayal Only Still Happen

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Jonathan Swift

Art Best Good People Manners Good Manners Those Easy Makes Making Uneasy Fewest Converse Room Bred Whoever Whom

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Jonathan Swift

Government Definition Without Governed Very Reason Consent Slavery

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. Jonathan Swift

Morning Man Late Eminence Lay Never Knew Come Greatness Who

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. Laurence J. Peter

Man Brainy He Know Until Knows

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. Mary Wollstonecraft

Good Women Will Men Free Become Fathers Neglect Citizens Husbands Rational Make Wives Quickly Duties Creatures

Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness. Munshi Premchand

Rain Clouds World Space Giving Trees Others Herself Earth Eaten Give Only Bear Drink Consumed She Quench Selfishness Left Cows Send Grains Fruits Fields Little Grown Milk

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. Napoleon Hill

Service You Better Extra Extra Mile More Habit Rendering Than Going Being Where Mile Stand Paid Now Right Start Apply

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill

Life Success Failure Man Logical Men Before Defeat Meet Easiest Exactly Logical Thing Exactly What Some Temporary He Failures Perhaps Most Majority Sure Quit Any Much Thing

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. Nikos Kazantzakis

Travel Country Every Perfect He Always Where Creates Traveler Travels

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Life Time Man Passion Action Think I Think Share He Peril Judged His Being Being Judged Required Should Lived

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden

You Will Animals Spring Cowards Liable Wild Wild Animals Sight Eye Out See Obstacles Like Look Squarely Afraid Bluff Them

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