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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
People

"Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
People

"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."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
People

"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."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
People

"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."

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Larry King Television Host
People

"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."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
People

"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."

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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
People

"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."

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Lauren Oliver Author
People

"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."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
People

"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."

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"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."

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