"Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!"
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"Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories."
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"Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law."
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"I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now."
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"...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely."
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"Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands."
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"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."
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"If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?"
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"Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them."
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"Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics."
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"The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit."
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"Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter."
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"Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory."
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"The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust."
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"The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society."
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"The more educated the people, the freer they are."
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"I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions."
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"Great people plant trees they'll never sit under."
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"I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster."
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"In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring."
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