“Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”
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“For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.”
“But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”
“People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.”
“I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.”
“There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.”
“The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.”
“We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.”
“I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.”
“Several people inspired me like Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, the whole Cash Money camp, the No Limit camp, DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, LL Cool J, I listened to all type of sh*t. I listened to R&B like Teena Marie, just good music - anybody that made good music. When I was growing up out west I listened to Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict. They were the "it" artists in Chicago. I wanted to be like them on TV and all of that so that's how it all started.”
“About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.”
“I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.”
“The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.”
“I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.”
“We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.”
“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.”
“Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.”
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.”
“[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.”
“Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.”