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"A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person."
"The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message."
"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."
"People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas."
"The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism."
"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."
"People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage."
"If people were silent, nothing would change."
"When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave."
"When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent."
"You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them."
"When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good."
"When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!"
"Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end."
"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live."
"We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them."
"Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path."
"We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way."
"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."