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"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." »Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" »Lao Tzu
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." »Max De Pree
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"There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice." »Stephen Mansfield
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." »Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
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"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer
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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader." »Harry S Truman
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." »Rosalynn Carter
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"The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go'" »E. M. Kelly
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"sometimes, as a leader, it's not so much as you do, but sometimes, what you don't do" »Coach Mac - Xaverian, Westwood, MA
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"He that would be a leader must be a bridge." »Welsh Proverb
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"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"A leader is a dealer in hope." »Napolean Bonaparte
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"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." »John C. Maxwell
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"The crowd gives the leader new strength." »Evenius
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader" »Benjamin Disraeli
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"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." »John Erksine
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." »Henry Kissinger
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"Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman
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"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." »Ray Kroc
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." »Andrew Carnegie
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." »Anthony D'Angelo
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"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader." »Tacitus
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious." »Ingmar Bergman
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"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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