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"When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril."
"When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people."
"There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick."
"Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around"
"But there's people I care about! And this time around, I’m not gonna just stand by and let them all get hurt!"
"You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert."
"No man however great is greater than his people"
"There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
"There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three."
"I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard."
"People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want."
"What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
"People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up."
"People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha?"
"You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds."
"Many people have come to Christ as a result of my participation in presenting the Gospel to them. It's all the work of the Holy Spirit."
"People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed"
"I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects"
"Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell."
"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
