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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
Creative

“People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.”

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
Spiritual

“I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.”

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
Creative

“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”

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Mira Grant Author
Philosophical

“One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”

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MG Sad

“Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.”

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Michael Grant Author
Angry

“Okay, look. I get it. You're one of those people who thinks they have to help screwed-up people. Or maybe you're attracted to dangerous, unbalanced people. But listen up: I'm not Edward and you're not Bella" - Lana”

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Michael Grant Author
Philosophical

“You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who knows what's next? We didn't' make this world, we're just the poor fools who are living in it.”

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Melinda Gates Philanthropist, businesswoman
Courageous

“Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.”

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Lisa Gardner Author
Angry

“It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.”

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Kit Williams Author and Illustrator
Wise

“I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.”

Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
Funny

“Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.”

Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
Grateful

“Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times”

Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Courageous

“However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.”

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Sad

“In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.”

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Hopeful

“Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history”

Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Sad

“Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.”