"I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born."
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"In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude."
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"People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes."
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"Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence."
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"I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change."
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"I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life."
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"I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees."
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"Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones."
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"Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people."
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"But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that."
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"She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted."
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"America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums."
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"You see a lot of people get into 40, 50 years old and have these mid-life crises' or whatever their called because they realize they haven't been doing anything their whole life that makes them happy."
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"Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?"
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"People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless."
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"Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart."
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"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
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"During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that."
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"[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing."
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"I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity."
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