"People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous."
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"A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want"
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"People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology."
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"Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth."
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"Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them."
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"Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors."
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"Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue."
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"One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding."
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"I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention."
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"We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people."
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"People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open."
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"People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same."
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"The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians"
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"...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different."
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"Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it."
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"and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave."
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"Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work."
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"Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer."
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"Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves."
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"In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives."
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