"Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are."
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"God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us."
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"I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me."
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"I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me."
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"I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine, I'm more interested in people."
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"People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments."
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"Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly."
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"A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood."
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"It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics."
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"It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."
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"I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it."
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"I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart."
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"Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it."
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"People who ask for your criticism want only praise."
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"Animals have personalities like people and must be studied."
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"No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product."
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"I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.""
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"It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research."
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