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"In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose."
"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."
"People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself."
"When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment."
"Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear."
"The only thing that can ruin a good day is people."
"I believe people can change, but only for the worse"
"People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them."
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."
"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."
"A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity."
"I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to."
"The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex."
"I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive."
"I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations."
"Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people."
"You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only."
"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being."
"If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security."
