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«Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.»
«A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.»
Author: David R. Gergen
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
aspirations, energies, leader, raise, release, releasing, role
«At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.»
«Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
baiting, balm, high and low, knot, poor man, prisoner, release, The Prisoner, woe
«And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossoms, cotton, gulf, Gulf stream, imperial, Lullabies, lullaby, murmur, murmurs, release, run across, sea level, The Imperial, toward the sea, valley, watermelon, watermelons, wheat
«A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, creators, divert, dramatic, enlighten, inform, mundane, Politics of, release
«All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
All Souls, completed, human body, rebirth, reborn, release, revolve, sling, slings, slung, The wheel, transmigration, undergo
«But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? / Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.»
«And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.»
«Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
enable, Fields, First to, medium, release, various
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