"It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something."
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"People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy."
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"It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism."
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"Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example."
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"People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now."
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"Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences"
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"If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve."
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"The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like."
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"Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work."
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"When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go."
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"I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!"
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"Half the people I look who are health food addicts look sickly to me. Let's start taxing health food. Somebody force a burger down some of these people's jaw because they look a little pale and wan to me."
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"This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word."
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"People will judge you according to your own convictions."
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"When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13."
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"Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people."
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"The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better."
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"A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes."
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"While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction."
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"Advent creates people, new people."
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