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"If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage."
"Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid."
"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God."
"Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure."
"Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers."
"Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements."
"Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures."
"Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India."
"We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that."
"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination"
"I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
"I like people too much or not at all."
"People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them."
"Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people."
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
"Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I."
"I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help."
"Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths."
"People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites."