Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.
You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.
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Roy T. Bennett
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Aberjhani
Imagination is the sacred intuition.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
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Criss Jami
I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its...
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Lauren Oliver
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