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“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”
― Georges Bataille

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.”
― Chris Brady

“No guts, no story.”
― Chris Brady

“Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.”
― Chris Brady

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”
― Chris Brady

“You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.”
― Chris Brady

“Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.”
― Chris Brady, LIFE

“Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”
― Orrin Woodward, LIFE

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt