Xenophon Quotes
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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Through their actions, every Israeli leader since the onset of the peace process with the PLO has shown a willingness to appease the PLO. Some leaders—like Shimon Peres, Barak, and Ehud Olmert—have stated their willingness to give the Palestinians almost everything they claim they want. Other leaders, like Netanyahu, who do not believe in the Palestinians’ good intentions, nevertheless have bowed to U.S. pressure and continued on with the fraudulent peace process.
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The good thing about 'Nuyorican Soul' is we get a little bit of everybody liking it.
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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.
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I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
