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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#country #dallas #dangerous #detroit #dressed

Stores can be indifferent to something new. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#new #something #stores

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#deadly #decisions #does #except #few

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#fires #kindle #seems #warm #world

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#defied #discords #drown #enough #fly

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature. ↗

— Steve Largent

#access #battle #become #biggest #expensive

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them. ↗

— Steve Largent

#boat #countries #getting #japan #korea

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence. ↗

— Steve Largent

#child #confidence #empty #example #father