"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do."
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"We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea."
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"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
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"To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors."
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"I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them."
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"The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life."
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"Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back."
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"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little."
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"Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in."
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"It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path."
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"Most people do not pray; they only beg."
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"When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else."
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"I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here."
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"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
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"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing."
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"Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet."
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"You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world."
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"How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away."
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"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."
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"People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them."
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