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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
People

"Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents."

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
People

"People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
People

"When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
People

"Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
People

"I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian."

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
People

"I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit."

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
People

"A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market."

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
People

"Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
People

"People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me."

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Milan Kundera Writer
People

"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
People

"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
People

"Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace."

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Muhammad Yunus Social Entrepreneur
People

"Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty."

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Kirsten Miller Author, Educator
People

"Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock."

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