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"I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing"
"I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy."
"Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together."
"I can't spend my whole day talking to people."
"She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?"
"He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water."
"I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people."
"What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you."
"I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."
"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."
"Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are."
"Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real."
"Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent."
"Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things."
"Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare."
"The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever."
"When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist."
"Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them."
"Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it."
"I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts."
