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"I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older."
"People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy"
"If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say."
"For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process."
"I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow."
"Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us."
"We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people."
"I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers"
"Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up"
"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
"Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do."
"Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage."
"People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves."
"You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand."
"It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry."
"Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor."
"We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us."
"When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’."
"What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists."
"There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again."
