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A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.


Frederick W. Smith

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
FREDERICK BUECHNER These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES