"Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!"
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"We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger."
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"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."
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"Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about."
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"How many people have never raised their hand before?"
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"Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?"
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"You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease."
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"Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong."
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"When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters."
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"This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world."
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"You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence."
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"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
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"Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain."
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"Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people."
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"Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people"
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"I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm [expletive] insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did."
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"If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves."
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"Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror."
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"If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it?"
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"Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt."
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