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

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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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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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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Nature
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. – Albert Einstein

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Nature

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. – Linda Hogan

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Nature

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

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Never write a letter while you are angry. – Chinese Proverb

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The second half of the 60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. – Bruce Cockburn

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Learning

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. – John C. Maxwell

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Attitude

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. – James Joyce

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Future