"I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind."
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"I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you."
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"If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy. The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it."
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"My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves."
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"What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society."
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"People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices."
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"When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend."
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"Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone."
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"We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first)."
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"One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives."
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"Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?"
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"People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life"
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"I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here."
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"I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do."
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"The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls."
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"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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"Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence."
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"I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth."
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"I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable."
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"The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you"
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