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Cam Newton Football Player
People

"Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are starting to notice."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
People

"I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
People

"You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
People

"I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well."

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People

"As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!"

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
People

"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
People

"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
People

"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?"

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
People

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
People

"I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer."

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