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Hopeful

“It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.”

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Hopeful

“Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.”

GK
Gayle King Journalist
Angry

“People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?”

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Geena Davis Actress
Sad

“The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.”

Nelson Mandela Political Leader
Hopeful

“There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.”

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
Courageous

“At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
Philosophical

“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”

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MA Philosophical

“All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.”

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
Angry

“It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!”

KC
Katie Couric Journalist
Inspired

“That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.”

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Katie Holmes Actress
Grateful

“We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.”

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Geneen Roth Author
Spiritual

“What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.”

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Gene Wolfe Author
Spiritual

“I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.”

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
Confident

“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”

Margaret Kennedy Novelist
Confident

“It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.”

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Lawrence Reed Economist, Author, Speaker
Angry

“A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.”