"A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans."
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"A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest."
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"I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's...none of us can. I hate saying no to people."
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"People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted."
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"People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other."
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"I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence."
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"Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God."
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"What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs."
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"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."
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"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us."
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"Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God."
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"If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius."
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"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich."
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"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."
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"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."
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"The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting."
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"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."
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"Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs."
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"Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
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"I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is."
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