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"One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love."
"You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you."
"We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know."
"Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots."
"I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic."
"You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best."
"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
"People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it."
"Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence."
"If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both."
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
"The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people."
"Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy."
"Shower the people you love with love."
"It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do."
"One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful."
"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
"Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses."
"Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out."
