"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."
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"Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people."
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"Reality is for people that lack imagination."
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"I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out."
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"I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same."
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"The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst."
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"I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny."
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"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards"
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"God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?"
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"For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other."
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"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
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"Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal."
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"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."
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"It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people."
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"People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about"
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"Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time."
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"When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?"
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"The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together."
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"Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place."
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"All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower."
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