"Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?"
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"An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live."
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"There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb."
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"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself."
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"Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes."
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"When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights."
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"Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age."
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"People tend to believe the bad rather than the good."
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"There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way."
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"In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington."
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"The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another."
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"I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people."
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"Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use."
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"Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good."
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"As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me."
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"I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person."
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"Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win."
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"People treating you differently, when you don't feel any different, is really alienating."
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"Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void."
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"Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England."
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