"Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."
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"We make our own hell out of the people around us."
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
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"When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness."
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"We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy."
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"Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance."
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"I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that.""
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"Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people."
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"The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves."
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"The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak."
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"Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach."
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"People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth."
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"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people."
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"People who are in love suspect nothing or everything."
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"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie."
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"I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."
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"In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust."
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"There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?"
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"You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make."
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"People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti."
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