Quote by Robert Shea
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. – Robert Shea

Other quotes by Robert Shea

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions. – Robert Shea

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Leadership
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. – Robert Shea

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strength
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a members freedom of thought and action. – Robert Shea

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Religion
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Nature
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. – Fran Lebowitz

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Nature

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. – Margaret Cavendish

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Nature

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates

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Nature

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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Nature

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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. – Caleb Cushing

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Right after Raymond I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I dont like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. What is my purpose? Who am I? I had a big identity crisis. – Ray Romano

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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. – Timothy Radcliffe

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