Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Thomas Hobbes

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Louis C. K.

Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman, attributed, also

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

Kurt Vonnegut

My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

Sherri Shepherd

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

Bjorn Lomborg

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

Ronnie Milsap

To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.

Edmund Cooper

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

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