"You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'"
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"It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act."
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"People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere."
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"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep."
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"That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue."
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"The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities."
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"There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow."
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"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
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"Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus."
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"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."
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"Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there."
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
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"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
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"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!"
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"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
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"Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!"
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"Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know."
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"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."
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"A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people."
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"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
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