"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

People, Ideas, Events

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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."

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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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"People are essentially red meat. They are."

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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."

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"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

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"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor."

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

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"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

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"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

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"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

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