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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

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The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

- Mary Parker Follett | Helping Other People Quotes

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

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It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

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Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

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The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.

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Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

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Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

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Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

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