"I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from."
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"Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else."
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"Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning."
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"Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep."
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"Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go."
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"Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something."
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"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
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"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."
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""We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people.""
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"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"
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"Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action."
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"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
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"Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life."
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"I am one of the people who love the why of things."
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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
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"When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures."
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"You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth."
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"Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well."
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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
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