Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Lionel Blue
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Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.
Chanda Kochhar
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You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.
Brendan Fehr
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For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.
John Taylor Gatto
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But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.
John Sweeney
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
Katharine Hepburn
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
William Weld
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I believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know—not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur. I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and strive to clear the path for them; and always, they must pay attention to and engage with anything that creates fear. Moreover, successful leaders embrace the reality that their models may be wrong or incomplete. Only when we admit what we don’t know can we ever hope to learn it.
Edwin Catmull
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Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Tacitus
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Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them “wonderful and truly original,” agreed with him that, regrettably, “precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize.”
Allen Shawn
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Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
