"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money."
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"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
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"Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away."
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"I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example."
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"It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people."
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"There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it."
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"The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed."
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"...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source."
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"People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them."
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"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
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"You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you."
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"I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told."
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"People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit."
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"This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness."
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"Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer."
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"Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will."
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"Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God."
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"I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!"
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"The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults."
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"Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon."
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