"People are so skillful in their ignorance!"
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"Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them."
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"The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane."
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"Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking."
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"The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new."
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"The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow."
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"American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success."
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"Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith."
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"Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it."
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"The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?"
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"Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves."
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"The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people."
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"The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust."
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"Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?"
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"A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human."
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"Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror."
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"Some people always sigh in thanking God."
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"Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know."
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"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive."
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"The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder."
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