"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another."
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"I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions."
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"General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked."
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"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
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"You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased."
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"One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion."
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"One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning."
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"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged."
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"I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit."
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"People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath."
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"One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled."
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"a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed."
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"I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them."
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"People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed."
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"We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems."
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"I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways."
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"People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems."
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"She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots."
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"There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen."
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