"People like me sound like a lot of big cannons."
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"I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that."
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"If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy."
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"Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer."
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"Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days."
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"I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago."
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"War ends only when people love each other."
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"Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country."
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"We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people."
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"If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person."
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"Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people."
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"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."
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"The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances."
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"I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people."
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"A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?"
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"People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads"
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"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity."
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"America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free."
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