"What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?"
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"Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties."
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"Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not."
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"People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within."
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"We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam."
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"If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it."
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"By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing."
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"I voted to send people to war."
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"No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith."
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"The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built."
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"The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart."
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"The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees"
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"There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it."
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"It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over."
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"People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't."
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"I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through."
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"We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we complain about the establishment discriminating against black people, we're going to start seeing that more of us are already in the establishment."
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"People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go."
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"I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance."
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"We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation."
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