"Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert."
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"For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn."
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"Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention."
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"I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard."
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"Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port."
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"People with opinions just go around bothering each other."
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"Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people."
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"If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people."
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"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."
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"Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented."
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"Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it."
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"We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people."
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"See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be"
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"Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!"
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"And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
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"Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way."
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"To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities."
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"The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you."
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"As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people."
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"People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds."
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