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"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
Rosa Parks
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
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"When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it."
Nusrat F. A. Khan
"When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it."
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"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."
Robert Mugabe
"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."
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"While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty."
Jose Rizal
"While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty."
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"Let some people get rich first."
Deng Xiaoping
"Let some people get rich first."
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"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."
Idi Amin
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."
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"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."
Alberto Fujimori
"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."
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"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
Chogyam Trungpa
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
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"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."
Radha Mitchell
"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."
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"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?"
Hassan Nasrallah
"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?"
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"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."
Kwame Nkrumah
"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."
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"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."
Kofi Annan
"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."
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"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."
Jean Claude Duvalier
"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."
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"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
Moo-hyum Roh
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
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"I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me."
Alec Issigonis
"I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me."
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"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."
Abdullah Ibrahim
"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."
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"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
Leon Trotsky
"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
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"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."
David Neeleman
"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."
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"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."
Kofi Annan
"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."
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"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."
John D. Rockefeller
"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."
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"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"
Kofi Annan
"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"
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"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."
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
"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."
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"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."
David Ogilvy
"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."
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"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."
Robert Rainy
"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."
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"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."
David Neeleman
"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."
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"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."
Bhumibol Adulyadej
"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."
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"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."
Joan Chen
"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."
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"I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear."
Pol Pot
"I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear."
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"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
Jalal Talabani
"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
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"Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide."
Thaksin Shinawatra
"Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide."
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"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
Fred L. Turner
"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
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"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use."
Mother Teresa
"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use."
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"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"
David Ortiz
"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"
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"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."
Jose Saramago
"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."
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"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."
Edwidge Danticat
"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."
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"I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there."
Marcus Garvey
"I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there."
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"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."
Jalal Talabani
"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."
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"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
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"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
Bhumibol Adulyadej
"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
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"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."
Noel Coward
"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."
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"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."
Gyorgy Ligeti
"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."
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"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."
Edwidge Danticat
"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."
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"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
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"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."
Boutros Boutros Ghali
"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."
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"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."
Walid Jumblatt
"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."
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"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
Bhumibol Adulyadej
"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
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"There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people."
Viktor Yushchenko
"There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people."
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"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people."
Kim Jong Il
"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people."
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"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
Yasser Arafat
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
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