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A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• Keep walking
• Beginnings
• Watching the ships
• The Mark Of A Mature Man
• Because it's never really going away, is it?
• In the quiet night
• She sat down ... that we all might stand up
• Starting on a Brave New World
• Because, hey, you know - Life IS Beautiful
• Oughtn't to be touched

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Leadership and Mission

If you are a leader, recognize what drives you. Know your motives. Mountbatten could have resisted partition, or slowed it, or lessened its impact. He was a decisive and dynamic man, a great one I think, but if he'd been capable of introspection, of self-analysis, of self-skepticism, he might have recognized and resisted his too-driven sense of Mission, and the personal vanity that was always, with him, a spur.
-- Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

[ 26 March 2006 5:55 pm submitted by Unknown ]

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