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"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

Art, Effort, Man, Order

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

Democracy, Years

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

Integrity, Tests

"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."

People,

"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Experience, Nothing

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

Creativity, Idea, Diversity

"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

Habit, Leaders

"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."

Consequence, Years

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

People, Old, Sweetness, Words

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

Acceptance, Suffering, Worry

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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Leadership, Community, Conscience, Imprisonment, Injustice

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Leadership, Americans, Right

"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Leadership, First, Language, Persuasion, Speech

"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish Inventor

Leadership, Army, Navy, Protection

"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Leadership, Battle, Eyes, Fire, Rank

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Leadership, Power, State

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Leadership, Growth, Entrepreneurs, States, United

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Leadership, Character, Usefulness, Vote

"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."

David Brinkley, American Journalist

Leadership, Being, Pretty

"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Leadership, First