"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
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"I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that."
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"Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy."
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"There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do."
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"People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you."
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"Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well."
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"Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people."
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"He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others."
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"Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings."
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"The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future."
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"Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury."
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"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."
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"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
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"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."
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"Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer."
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends."
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"The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty."
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"I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another."
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"The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things."
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