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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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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Massachusetts
Mary Parker
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.
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While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
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All polishing is done by friction.
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We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
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Majority rule rests on numbers democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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