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“Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.”
“What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.”
“It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.”
“Without discipline there's no life at all.”
“Many people have the ambition to succeed they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job there is no ...”
“Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.”
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.”
“We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.”
“Not being able to govern events I govern myself.”
“As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.”
“That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.”
“You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.”
“There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.”
“In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.”
“Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.”
“When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.”
“The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.”
“Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
“Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.”
