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"I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I've reached that state."
"There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people."
"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false."
"We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are."
"People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth."
"We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save."
"We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do."
"The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all."
"Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you"
"Very successful people say no to almost everything."
"Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without it, you can't be successful. But luck is something you have to stimulate, something you have to nurture through the choices you make...That's why things have always worked out for me. Things work out not just because I'm lucky, but because I plan ahead. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I've always spent a lot of time trying to surround myself with the right people, the kinds of teammates who could lead me to my goals."
"A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially."
"No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do."
"What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation."
"As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom."
"Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%."
"Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script."
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed."
"The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."
"French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries."
