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The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.


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The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.



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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.



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Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.



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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.



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Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.



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It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.



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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.



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