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Saint Ambrose, Taylor
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
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J. Bartlett Brebner
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
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George Bancroft
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
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Charles Galloway
The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.
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Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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Walker Percy
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Lester B. Pearson
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.
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Epictetus
Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.
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Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach"
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
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Apuleius
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
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