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People Quotes
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
181
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
114
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
110
"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."
104
"The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads."
98
"I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way."
93
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
92
"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."
91
"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."
90
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
87
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
86
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
86
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
84
"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
82
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
82
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."
82
"I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people."
81
"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."
79
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
73
"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"
73
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
72
"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."
71
"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."
71
"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
70
"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."
69
"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."
69
"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
69
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
68
"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount."
68
"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."
67
"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
67
"Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?"
66
"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people."
66
"And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places."
66
"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate."
66
"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."
65
"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
65
"And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons."
65
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