"The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny."
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"People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."
"Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency."
"Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything."
"To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual."
"There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God."
"Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level."
"James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth."
"I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am."
"The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial."
"If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it."
"I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary."
"The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it."
"One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them."
"We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness."
"We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
"The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love."
"The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule."
"God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you."
"Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention."