If people are able to run the ...

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.
 Wen Jiabao

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 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
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You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
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