Alice Walker Quotes, Heart Quotes, People Quotes

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

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The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

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I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.

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Most people like to live in illusions.

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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

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The object of government is the welfare of the people.

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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

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People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

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The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.

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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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Most people never listen.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.

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