"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
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"God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people."
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"Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth"
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"If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better."
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"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it."
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"Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people"
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"I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?"
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"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!"
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"The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever."
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"Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them."
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"All people are the same; only their habits differ."
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"These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about "sanctity"—don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want."
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"Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot."
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"The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population."
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"Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal."
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"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."
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"In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness."
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"When people cease to complain, they cease to think."
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"There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!"
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"People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse."
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