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Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated." --Fred W. Smith" --
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John C. Maxwell |
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There is no achievement without failure.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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John C. Maxwell |
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If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King Jr."
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John C. Maxwell |
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By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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John C. Maxwell |
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People who lead for selfish reasons seek... Power: They love control and will continue to add value to themselves by reducing the value of others. Position: Titles are their ego food. They continually make sure that others feel their authority and know their rights as a leader. Money: They will use people and sell themselves for financial gain. Prestige: Their looking good is more important to them than their being and doing good.
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John C. Maxwell |
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There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don't want to make mistakes.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Dentists encourage us to use dental floss daily to promote the health of our teeth; we need to use mental floss to get rid of old thinking and promote the health of our leadership.
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leadershift
leadership
leadership-development
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John C Maxwell |
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you must be able to take the new thing you've learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.
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John C. Maxwell |
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A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment.
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John C. Maxwell |
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The modern principle of representation - that each individual should participate in the state - grew out of the forests of Germany and will eventually dominate the entire modern world (VD I, 533/203).
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Frederick C. Beiser |
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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A mountain climber foolishly climbing alone slips off a precipice and finds himself dangling at the end of his safety rope, a thousand feet above a ravine. Unable to climb the rope or swing to a safe resting spot, he calls out in despair: "Hallooo, hallooo! Can anybody help me?" To his astonishment, the clouds part, a beautiful light pours through them, and a mighty voice replies, "Yes, my son, I can help you. Take your knife and cut the ro..
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning" and Turing's equally revolutionary inversion were aspects of a single discovery: competence without comprehension. Comprehension, far from being a Godlike talent from which all design must flow, is an emergent effect of systems of uncomprehending competence: natural selection on the one hand, and mindless computation on the other. These twin ideas have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but they..
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Like many other natural wonders, the human mind is something of a bag of tricks, cobbled together over the eons by the foresightless process of evolution by natural selection.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Not all historians of philosophy have the same goals and attitudes, and I for one see no good reason for disqualifying any of the contenders. Some insist on placing their thinkers in the historical context in which they wrote, which means, for instance, learning a lot of seventeenth-century science if you really want to understand Descartes, and a lot of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political history if you really want to understand ..
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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It turns out that all the "magic" of cognition depends, just as life itself does, on cycles within cycles of recurrent, "re-entrant," reflexive information-transformation processes"
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity. (...) Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect it from our curiosity, because being who we are, one of the things we deem precious is the truth.
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science
truth
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counterintuitive.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Americans are notoriously ill-informed about evolution. A recent Gallup poll (June 1993) discovered that 47 percent of adult Americans believe that Homo sapiens is a species created by God less than ten thousand years ago.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller pygmy chimp or bonobo) than those chimpanzees are to the other apes.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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So Paley was right in saying not just that Design was a wonderful thing to explain, but also that Design took Intelligence. All he missed--and Darwin provided--was the idea that this Intelligence could be broken into bits so tiny and stupid that they didn't count as intelligence at all, and then distributed through space and time in a gigantic, connected network of algorithmic process.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way--so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Don't be afraid of a little metaphor; it won't bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash it in for unvarnished fact when you feel the urge.
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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One of Richard Dawkins's main God Delusion arguments is that, if God created everything, we would have to ask who created God. But the very asking of this question reveals at once that Dawkins has in mind a created God: "Who created God?" Created gods certainly are a delusion."
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John C. Lennox |
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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John C. Lennox |
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There is a real conflict, but it is not science versus religion. It is theism versus atheism, and there are scientists on both sides.
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John C. Lennox |
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Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver.' It was this conviction that led Francis Bacon (1561-1626), regarded by many as the father of modern science, to teach that God has provided us with two books - the book of Nature and the Bible -
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John C. Lennox |
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Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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One of the previous Kings of the Enchanted Forest had been very fond of sweeping up and down staircases in a long velvet robe and his best crown, so he had added stairs wherever he thought there was room
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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William!" I turned smiling. "Did they send you over?" William shook his head. "They're still arguing, and it's spreading. Your professor has opinions." I rolled my eyes, because it was William. "She's from Vinland. As far as she's concerned, wildlife is something you shoot first and study later. She's been complaining about the menagerie animals since the day she got to Mill City, especially this one."
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Men can be such provoking creatures. One would think the entire world and everything in it were made only for their enjoyment and approval.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Butt he isn't my lover, or my fiance, or my boyfriend or anything, and I refuse to be killed with him.
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humor
idiot-prince
princess
priorities
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Magic and music are brother and sister," he replied as Starbrow picked his way through the fog. "The bard's craft has always been half magic; in times past minstrels and magicians were often one and the same. Perhaps it is because we must sing so frequently of the old days and the magic of them that we do"
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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You must have misunderstood," Keredwel said severely. "No one volunteers to be a dragon's princess. It isn't done." "Actually, Alianora's quite right," Cimorene said as she set the teacups in front of her visitors. "I did volunteer." She smiled sweetly at the thunderstruck expressions on the faces of the first two princesses. "I got tired of embroidery and etiquette." Keredwel"
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Winter was usually the slow season at the menagerie, with so many of the animals hibernating, but that year I was busier than a hen with a double set of chicks.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.
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risk
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.
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evolution
microbes
pollution
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Philip C. Plait |
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C'etait, pensa-t-elle, comme un doux peigne passant dans son cerveau, redressant les pensees et defaisant les noeuds.
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Robert C. O'Brien |
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Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of usunless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of cou..
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rats
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Robert C. O'Brien |
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The despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan, the one that will provide your solution once the problem has been posited clearly, in its entirety, in its indispensable harmony. This plan has been drawn up well away from the frenzy in the mayor's office or the town hall, from the cries of the electorate or the laments of society's victims. It has been drawn up by serene and lucid minds. It has taken account of n..
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James C. Scott |
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Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state.
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ethnicity
shatter-belt
statism
taxes
tribalism
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James C. Scott |
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I]f you live today you breathe in nihilism. In or out of the Church it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now
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Ralph C. Wood |