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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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Leadership
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John Updike
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Religion
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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Graduation
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Society

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Society

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didnt have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. – Charles Kuralt

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Society

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson

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Society

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Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. – John Erskine

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Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. – Charley Reese

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Government

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. – Mike Krzyzewski

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I dont understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. – Kristin Chenoweth

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