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"It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities."
"Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition."
"There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends."
"The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God."
"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."
"We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers."
"It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours."
"The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt."
"I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion."
"The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'"
"If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality."
"...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants."
"A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people."
"God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities."
"The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do."
"Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are."
"If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent."
"When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone."
"TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results."
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were."
