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It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Years
  • Far

• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

  Dan Rather
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Alligator

• 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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Life
  • Game
  • Man

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • My Life
  • Financially

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

  

  Charles Elachi
  • Adventure
  • Exploration

• I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will 'talk sense to the American people'. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • People
  • American
  • Hope

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• Truth - is as old as God-.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Truth

• It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • People
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