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Patti Smith Musician
People

"I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then."

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Paul Allen Businessman, Philanthropist
People

"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way."

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Paul McKenna Hypnotherapist, Author
People

"I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it"

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Paul Reed Smith Guitar Maker
People

"Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people."

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Paul Watson Journalist
People

"We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities."

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"I'm limited as a human being, and when you look at certain situations, it's very bleak. Or at least it appears that way, but then I seek spiritual counseling. My inner circle of people are like-minded, so we strengthen each other."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
People

"Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
People

"Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
People

"The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
People

"People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
People

"Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
People

"We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world."

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