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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
Mary Parker Follett
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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
Businessperson
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Political Scientist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
Mary Parker
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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.
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