"People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise."
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"I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it."
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"It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good."
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"In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it."
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"I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons."
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"Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life."
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"It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed."
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"Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!"
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"Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people."
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"People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now."
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"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."
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"I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily."
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"people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness."
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"I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it."
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"Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people."
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"The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too."
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"Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people."
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"If you have it you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is if you've never had any of it ever people just seem to know."
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"It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone."
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"Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
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