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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. – John Buchan

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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. – John Buchan

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. – John Buchan

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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. – Rosa Luxemburg

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Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself. – Italian Proverb

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Leadership does not depend on being right. – Ivan Illich

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