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• The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, People, Decision

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• In order to find peace, we must expose the masks we use to hide behind.

  Debbie Ford

  Use, Finding Peace, Mask

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• In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

  William C. Brown

  Alive, Firsts, Spirit

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• One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Self, Knowing God, Knows

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• While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Gdp, Elements, World

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• There is no order of things except in the human mind.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

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• Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love You, Love Is, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.171, Harmony

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• The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.

  Petra Kelly

  Spiritual, Heart, Profound

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• More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

  Pierre Boulez

  Delirium, Organize

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Justice

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Bats, World, Captains

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• Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Civilization, Language, Poet

  "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921)

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• Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Lying, Animal, Afterlife

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• In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, People, Humanity

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• The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Dimensions, Language

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• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Sleep, Wish

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• According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Hot, Atoms

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• Jesus has given me ample resources to meet the spiritual needs of others because He has given me Himself and He has give me His Word. But in order to meet the spiritual needs of the multitude, I have to spend hours alone with Him in the prayerful meditation of His Word so that my spiritual needs are met.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Risk, Misunderstood

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• All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Lying

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• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Morality, Separation, Progressive

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• It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

  Wole Soyinka

  Party, Believe, Fighting

  "Criticism Starts at Home". Interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2004.

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• In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Feelings, Needs, Yearning

  Neil Clark Warren (1998). “Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life... and Loving It”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

  Steven Tyler

  Sight, Sides, Shore

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• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  Yolanda Adams

  Years, Albums, Great Things

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