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Nancy Sinatra Singer
Confident

“I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.”

NC Confident

“I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.”

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NC Vulnerable

“I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.”

Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Courageous

“A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.”

MM Wise

“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

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Hopeful

“It's not enough to raise awareness. You have to give people solutions, and you have to invite them to get involved in whatever way they can, whether that's doing volunteer work or taking a portion of their salary and figuring out where they want that money to go. You have to find ways to inspire people to get involved.”

Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Grateful

“Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.”

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Creative

“Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.”

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Spiritual

“A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.”

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Laozi Philosopher
Philosophical

“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.”

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Laozi Philosopher
Philosophical

“We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.”

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Laozi Philosopher
Philosophical

“Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.”

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Laozi Philosopher
Philosophical

“In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.”

Laozi Philosopher
Philosophical

“If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?”

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Laozi Philosopher
Funny

“People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.”