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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.


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Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
John Buchan

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan

Without humility there can be no humanity.
John Buchan

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan

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