"The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people."
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"People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ."
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"No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline."
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"People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'."
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"There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them."
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"The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it."
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"I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling."
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"It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them."
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"Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying."
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"Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable."
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"The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim."
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"people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water."
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"It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated."
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"A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote."
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"No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?"
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"The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?"
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"People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live."
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"All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five."
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"Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet"
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"Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live."
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