"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."
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"The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection."
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"People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them."
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"If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?"
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"Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness."
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"I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day."
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"I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others."
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"I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so."
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"We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day."
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"Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy."
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"The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States."
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"I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now."
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"To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work."
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"What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world."
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"The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal."
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"The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up."
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"John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it."
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"Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26."
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"The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it."
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"What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions."
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