"We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom."
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"Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer."
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"In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to."
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"I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world."
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"We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty."
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"That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
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"Hell is other people at breakfast."
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"People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life."
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"If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway."
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"n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed."
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"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."
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"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."
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"If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose"
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"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
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"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow."
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"The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears."
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"It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written."
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"If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment."
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"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
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