"I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do."
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"There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare"
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"I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself."
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"When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society."
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"I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me."
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"Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!"
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"A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you."
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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
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"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation."
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"They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth."
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"Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay."
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"Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room"
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"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say."
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"A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family."
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"Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever."
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"Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most."
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"The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense."
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"The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be."
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"My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong."
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