Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Rights Quotes, People Quotes

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

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The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

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Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

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Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.

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Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

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The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

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Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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