Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Warren Bennis Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • George Orwell Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Dean Acheson Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Samuel Johnson Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Rollo May Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Buddha Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lawana Blackwell He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Bhagavad Gita He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Orwell He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Socrates He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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