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"It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly."
"The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic."
"I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like."
"No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you."
"I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes."
"Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?"
"If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them."
"We cannot expect that millions are practicing real yoga just because millions of people claim to be doing yoga all over the globe. What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga."
"This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare."
"Respectable people... What bastards!"
"This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
"A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection."
"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone"
"Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year."
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner."
"We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive."
"The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms."
"An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it."
"The American people are free to do exactly what they are told."
"Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it."
