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"If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time."
"If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean."
"Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed."
"Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others."
"You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people."
"Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves."
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
"There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed."
"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
"Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things"
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long."
"I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people."
"People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'."
"They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason."
"I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ."
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
"Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."
"When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people."
"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall."
"The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to."
