"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees."
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"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."
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"The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear."
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"There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad."
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"We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for."
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"The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was."
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"Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love."
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"Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way."
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"In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed."
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"People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true."
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"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
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"It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act."
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"The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."
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"In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest"
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"The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."
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"Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people."
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"Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win."
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"Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore."
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"There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners."
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"The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them."
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