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"People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day."
"People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often."
"Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people."
"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."
"All over this world people are standing up for freedom."
"People would pay money to work at CNN"
"There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living..."
"I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it."
"People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things."
"I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems that matter to me, it stuns me how much the presence of the heart-in all its forms-is endlessly available there. To experience ourselves in an important way just knocks me out. It puzzles me why people have given that up for cleverness. Some of them are ingenious, more ingenious than I am, but so many of them aren't any good at being alive."
"I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved."
"The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people."
"I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians."
"Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures."
"Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile."
"It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile."
"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."
"The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs."
"Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense."
