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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Live Life, Mean

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

Love, Pregnancy, Might

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

"Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

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In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Jerry Brown

People, Salary, Ends

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Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.

Darren Johnson

Years, Realizing, Knows

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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Vernor Vinge

Developers, Proceeding

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Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

Thomas Jefferson

Majority Rule, Tyranny Of The Majority, Minorities

First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

Amelie Mauresmo

Sports, Firsts, Tough

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As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charlie Daniels

Government, Doors, California

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Mark Twain

Life, Focus, Vision

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

Women, Valentine's Day, Nine

Pride and Prejudice ch. 6 (1813)

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

Military, Bad Ass, Law

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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Violence, Non Violence, Militancy

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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

Political, Politics, Nine

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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Clarence Darrow

Real, Trying, Trials

"My trials by jury service" by Rick Gekoski, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

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Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

R. Lee Ermey

Fifteen, Seven Days, Week

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Bob Feller

Sports, Simple, Differences

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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, Prosperity, Finance

"The Sydney Morning Herald" Newspaper, May 22, 1982.

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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

Money, Men, Counterfeit

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I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Robert Powell

Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

J. K. Rowling

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Samuel Smiles

Life, Success, Struggle

Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.312

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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

Sonia Sotomayor

Heart, Law, Conclusion

"Another Day Of Questions For Sotomayor". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 15, 2009.

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