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• A leader is best When people barely know he exists Not so good when people obey and acclaim him.
  Worse when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you...
• When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
  -- Lao Tse...
• When the Guru administers, the users are hardly aware that he exists.
  Next best is a sysop who is loved. Next, one who is feared....
• He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he would have resented it extremely.
  He would have said that what he did was done entirely for the good of the country....
• When Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, the telephone people interrupted service for one minute in his honor.
  They've been honoring him intermittently ever since, I believe. -- The Grab Bag...
• What they said: What they meant: "I recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever.
  (Yes, that about sums it up.) "The amount of mathematics she knows will surprise you....
• A wizard is only as good as his spells," people will often say.
  It is telling however, that this statement is only made by people who have never been wizards themselves....
• Oh, he [a big dog] hunts with papa," she said. "He says Don Carlos [the dog] is good for almost every kind of game.
  He went duck hunting one time and did real well at it....
• Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.
  The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior....