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NATALIE VALDES PATCH ADAMS Its strange how people choose you and when you come to choose them ,they cant accept that OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN CRAIG GROESCHEL They're braver than me. I tell them that they have to think no matter what, they're going to get thr... ENRIQUE GARCIA I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two o... BARRY ALVAREZ I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.... A.J. STYLES ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS RICHARD MATHESON RUBEN STUDDARD JAMES BALDWIN It's for kids who just want to have fun, who may not be sports-oriented. It's for everybody, no matt... KAREN GRANT how is it that "no" is shorter than "yes" and "maybe" and yet people still find it hard to say no? t... PHILLIP BUYONDO FRANK ABAGNALE These are people with real power. We need to celebrate the fact that these people are where they are... ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS SHANNON L. ALDER E. W. HOWE EDGAR WATSON HOWE LARRY WILMORE People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things; they kn... RENAE A. SAUTER SHANNON L. ALDER No matter what, I would never let the people who wanted me to break see how much damage they had inf... RACHEL L. SCHADE SCOTT ALLEN The guys that are proponents of doing that, and we know who they are, they have never had that happe... JAY HAYES RUDY GIULIANI They know that coming to Franklin is a good thing, because they have people down here who would rath... JUSTIN MARTIN I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ... HALEY BENNETT ROB THURMAN BARUCH SPINOZA We don't want people to think they have to go and do something. Rather we want them to be moved to f... JULIE HOLLAND JAMES BALDWIN Each of the banks would simply prefer to take their homes and finish them and sell them. Notwithstan... 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People will try you on every level. They... AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA YUKIO MISHIMA You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of ... WERNER KLEMPERER It was probably my fault that I had never asked them before if they wanted to be more involved, but ... ANNE WALLACE DAVID LEVITHAN NEAL STEPHENSON I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce th... NICOLA FORMICHETTI J.K. ROWLING JEFFREY EUGENIDES JAMES BALDWIN No matter how you slice and dice it, ... it's just hard to push that many people through. BRAD WHITE JOHN GEDDES This team was probably more down than I've ever seen them after that loss. And that's a good thing i... CINDY STEIN I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have ... GORE VERBINSKI JOYCE GIRAUD C.S. LEWIS It takes them time to surveil. It takes them time to plan, ... In those cases, when they try that, w... JOHN SATTLER J.K. ROWLING I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also i... DAN CHAON Instead of a family outing, Sunshine Kids brings the kids together so they form their own network of... JENNIFER WISLER FAY WELDON MARGARET MITCHELL J.M. BARRIE Their record does not indicate what kind of team they are, ... There are several games that I have s... CHRIS HENDERSON It's a great prop; it's the ruby slippers of our time. It represents the love that would never go aw... TOM GREGORY MARTIN BUXBAUM JOEL OSTEEN My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away. My clients are stunned when I say t... MARIE KONDō DEYTH BANGER You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distast... ANTHONY ZINNI TRACY K. SMITH Narrow minded people never mingle with those who seek to find answers, they rather prefer you to tak... SAIDA HOSHI See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them... ROY YAMAGUCHI I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their pas... ALEKSANDR LEBED CHRISTINA ENGELA WALLY LAMB I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and i... PATRICK WANG SAFAK PAVEY I just want to see them and hug them and love them, you know...have them again, you know. I just wan... ERNEST KARNES ERIN MORGENSTERN I've pushed people who've cared away, to grasp the ones that didn't. I've tried so hard to make some... LAURA KESSLER for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
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The point is: what happens in heaven?'
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There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for the... 
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Dear Child, 
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