"People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man."
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"The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music."
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"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight."
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"True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it."
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"I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison."
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"The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated."
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"The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important."
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"For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls."
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"Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism."
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"Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold."
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"Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs."
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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."
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"Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others."
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"I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect."
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"No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice."
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"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
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"I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people."
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"If you give people light, they will find their own way."
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"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
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"Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing."
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