Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.- Alexis de Tocqueville

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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby

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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

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You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. ― Mandy Hale

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I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.

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Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people. - Paul Scheer

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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

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That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

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Give light and people will find the way. — Ella Baker

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