The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead o...
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
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THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine is ... their ugliness ... their pink sausage ...
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Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to
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He had a baseball bat and I was tied to a chair, pissing him off was the smart thing to do...
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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Cynics are made, not born.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.
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We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free
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There is no art without Eros.
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I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realize what they take upon themselves, but who intoxicate themselves with romantic sensations. From a human point of view this is not very interesting to me, nor does it move me profoundly. However, it is immensely moving when a mature man
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
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Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!
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Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the fact that we tec...
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Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
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Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.
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