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“Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.”
--- Francois, Sixth Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1615 – 1680)
“The man who believes he can live without others is mistaken; and the man who thinks others can’t live without him is more mistaken.”
--- Hasidic saying
“Beware of charisma…’Representative Men’ was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy….Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic---or, as our dictionaries tell us, ‘conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief.’ While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.”
---Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 – 2004)
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