
Nodding the head does not row the boat.
- Topic: Action, Communication, Leadership
- Location: Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Aloha is free.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
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Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
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It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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