James Buchanan Quotes
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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There are very few profound sayings in the world.
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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
