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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
— Tony Campolo
Scare People with Sincerity
— Patrick Lencioni
I believe it's long past time that we, as individuals and as a society, reestablished the standard that leadership can never be about the leader more than the led.
— Patrick Lencioni
To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.
— Paul Graham
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
— Paulo Coelho
Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
— Paulo Coelho
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
— Paulo Coelho
Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.
— Paulo Coelho
Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
— Paulo Coelho
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
— Paulo Coelho
Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
— Paulo Coelho
if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone
— Paulo Coelho