"No leader got there by following another's path. Better to walk alone than follow a crowd going in the wrong direction."

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— Tom Rath

Literature1975

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"I think it’s great that we have multiple female presidential candidates, so there’s not the woman running... I’m very excited about there being multiple women across — that can represent different par…"

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Politics1989

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"There are prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that have not been tried, have no legal representation, their families cannot see them and are obviously kept in a strange land outside their own country. There i…"

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Politics1956

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"Freedom of Men under Government is, to have a standing Rule to live by, common to every one of that Society, and made by the Legislative Power erected in it; a Liberty to follow my own Will in all thi…"

— John Locke

Philosophy1943–2006

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