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		In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leon Trotsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ella Baker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The downfall of any leader in a sport's team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Toto Wolff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Erykah Badu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Courtney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think, unfortunately, many opinion leaders in Germany - including government officials, politicians, social service bureaucrats and so forth - they are in the private system, and they get paid the private insurance by their employer. So for them this is the best of two worlds: They have some more expensive and privileged access, but they do not have to pay for it themselves. This is a system which is both inefficient and unfair at the same time, but it is defended by those who profit from this system, and this includes many opinion leaders and many politicians.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karl Lauterbach
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lou Holtz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Sowell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Tracy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Shakespeare
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Henson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Copeland
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lao Tzu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mahatma Gandhi