"The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love."
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"The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent."
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"The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people."
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"This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing."
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"I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table."
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"You know, people really want to hear about the issues."
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"You fall in love with people's minds."
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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."
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"The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind."
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"I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter."
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"Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do."
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"I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious."
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"To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man."
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"It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse."
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."
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"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
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"The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive."
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"How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you."
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"You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart."
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"Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody."
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