"Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world."
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"Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down."
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"The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan."
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"I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open."
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"Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody."
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"What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?"
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"The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements."
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"It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people."
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"If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader"
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"We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states."
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"Don't blindly follow any leader."
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"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
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"A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob."
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"A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship."
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"You don't have to hold a position to be a leader."
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"The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all."
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"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
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"The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so."
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"Deaf rage that hears no leader."
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"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."
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