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A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
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If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
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The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.
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Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.
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The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.
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Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Jack McIver Weatherford is the former DeWitt Wallace Professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is best known for his 2004 book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
The history of money
Savages and civilization
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