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  • Samuel Goldwyn When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Lao-Tzu When the best leader's work is done the people say, ''We did it ourselves.''
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Edmund Burke When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Harold J. Seymour When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - to the end at all costs.
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  • Brene Brown When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
    A Theory of Roughness
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Herbert Hoover When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Bernadette Peters When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Bailey When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
    Bernard Bailey
    American comic book artist (1916 - 1996)
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  • Billy Williams When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Allen Klein When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Shana Alexander When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Martin Buber When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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  • Bell Hooks When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alan Cohen When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about... never underestimate the importance of a kind act.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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