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• Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

  Dennis Prager

  Kids, Careers, Soul

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• People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

  Irving Kristol

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Reason Magazine Interview, 1983.

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• Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Matter, Faces, Facing The Truth

  "What's So Great About America". Book by Dinesh D'Souza. Chapter 6: "America the Beautiful", 2002.

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• Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Differences, Leader

  "'What Needs to Be Done', Peter Drucker On Leadership". Interview with Rich Karlgaard in Forbes magazine, November 19, 2004.

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• The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

  Peter Drucker

  Creating, Revolution, Affair

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• YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.

  Johan Cruijff

  Quality, Boring, Results

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• One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Lying, Stupid, Ifs And

  "Die Zeit ohne Beispiel". Book by Joseph Goebbels, pp. 364-369, 1941.

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• Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Running, Lying, Mistake

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• In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Contemplative Life, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Practice, Fundamentals

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• Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

  Thomas Merton

  Mercy Of God, Ashes, Ash Wednesday

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Meditations on liturgy”

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• What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Free Gifts, Perfection

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your
  writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time.

  Douglas Preston

  Writing, Thinking, Doctors

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• We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Giving

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• Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Talking, Perfection, Vision

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• Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dog, Half, Want

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• I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

  David Lee Roth

  Drinking, Night, Glasses

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• Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Essentials, Hunger And Thirst

  "Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1924.

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• If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

  Herb Kelleher

  Leadership, People, Done

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• Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion.

  Herb Kelleher

  Bucks, Littles, Opinion

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• It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

  Frances Perkins

  Men, Healthy, Discontent

  Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”

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• It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

  Joe Satriani

  Perfect, Music Is

  "Guitar Player". November 1989.

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• I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

  Tony Benn

  Thinking, Community, Democracy

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.

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• And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

  Elon Musk

  Morning, Things In Life, Awful

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• We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

  Richard Branson

  People, Greed, Leader

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