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“Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?”
Bertrand Russell
“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”
Rupert Murdoch
“Arrogance - The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.”
Larry Kersten
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
Harold S. Geneen
“The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.”
St. Francis de Sales
“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“. . .I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”
Dizzy Gillespie
“Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.”
William J. Toms
“Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!”
Marvin Minsky
“I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country”
Thomas Jefferson
