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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
People

"If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have."

People Joy Unhappy
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Juliette Lewis Actress, Producer
People

"Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out."

People Art Joy
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Jonathan Davis Musician
People

"At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died."

People Cutting Work Out
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Jonathan Davis Musician
People

"Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized."

People Trying Nice
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
People

"Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep."

People Angel Sheep
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Businesswoman, Entrepreneur
People

"I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was."

People Team Challenges
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
People

"There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right."

People Giving Up Black History
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Martin Luther Theologian
People

"If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth."

People Needs Church
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Martin Luther Theologian
People

"No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity."

People Christian Taken
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
People

"I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"."

People Responsibility Helping
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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
People

"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage."

People Eye Comfort
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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
People

"Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be."

People Spiritual Solitude
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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
People

"You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better."

People Trying Hate
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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
People

"People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless."

People Mind Tools
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