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Everything rises and falls on leadership. - John C. Maxwell

Half of being smart is knowingly what your dumb about.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world. - Erik Erikson

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. - Voltaire

"I just happened to be nowhere near your neighborhood." – Singles

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. - Edgar Allan Poe

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. - T. S. Eliot

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. - H. L. Mencken

“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen. - John Hanning Speke

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. - H. P. Lovecraft

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. - Aeschylu

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. - Woodrow Wilson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson

Doubt is the brother of shame. - Erik Erikson

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight. - Richard Bach

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

I start where the last man left off. - Thomas A. Edison

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. - Abraham Lincoln

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. - Franz Kafka

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi