"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."
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"Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!"
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"I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff."
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"Children notice things first, people later."
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"You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social, or political."
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"It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so."
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"I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics."
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"I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs."
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"The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia."
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"The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else."
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"Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget."
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"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."
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"When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'"
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"Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good."
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"Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me."
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"Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties."
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"In my path, three things are really important. One is associating with people who inspire us with their positive influence. The company we keep is very important. Number two is our spiritual practice. Putting aside sacred time every day to make that journey within, to tune into the frequency of our true nature and the love and the grace that is within us. Number three is to try living with ethical, moral and spiritual values, which culminates in unselfish service."
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"What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh."
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"I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could."
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"Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake."
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