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ELLE MACPHERSON People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny. MURRAY LINCOLN Never mind what people say or do, they just can handle their own problems at home. OMPHEMETSE The world could be a lot better if people correct their own mistakes rather than criticizing others�... VIKRANT PARSAI People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes. LIANE MORIARTY We encourage them to begin their own companies, start their own businesses. BRENDA MERRITT These donations give people hope, and it also shows what a community can do when there's no other re... BOB MACEY People create their own happiness and also cause their own misery DEE COLONESE We look at each person as an individual who was somebody's baby once. They have their own story, and... LORI MCCLAIN The nature of our constitution is that everyone is supposed to be able to do their own thing in thei... STEPHEN HARPER Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and sta... JEB BUSH People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses VIETNAMESE PROVERB Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own di... KATHRYN ERSKINE Most people identify with their own era. I tell young people we've done the same thing; it's just yo... DR. DICK BARNETT And people can design their own outings. DAN DASHNER In Dallas, people do their own thing in their own little space, and everyone just runs on the court ... DANNY FORTSON I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the tru... ERIC CARR For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha... PLATO We want to get those students back into the community to work with their own people. JOSEPH SUINA Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love a... M. J. ROSE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ... E.M. FORSTER People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ... E. M. FORSTER We hope our students will become better citizens of the world and have a better appreciation of thei... ANN SANDERS Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own di... KATHRYN ERSKINE Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of o... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Parents ask that: 'Will my child just get better on their own?' And yes, they will get better on the... DR. EDVIN MANNIKO Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the... ISAAC ASIMOV Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own local... CHUCK D When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people -... JACK KEANE If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but thei... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do w... STEPHEN CURRY Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they wo... MARIA BROPHY How do we reward and how do we validate terrorism by awarding people their own territory, their own ... ANDREW SCHULTZ Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own. SUSAN C. YOUNG From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their... CESAR CHAVEZ I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. ERIC CARR People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their posse... MARY WORLEY MONTAGU People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them ... CHINUA ACHEBE We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume... NYLE DIMARCO They do their own fundraising and pick their own charities. BARBARA ERICKSON You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict. WANGARI MAATHAI We involve people in philanthropy. It can be anybody. Anybody can donate to a fund, or they can crea... ELIZABETH HENRICKSON Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they d... BOB AYERS We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own ... BETH GIBBONS When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the wo... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE The Mexican people contribute to the community through their work. They pay rent or own houses; they... FERNANDO SANCHEZ [They] just deal with it (on their own), ... There ain't much you can do about it. HAROLD MILLER About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just... GABE NEWELL It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. NELSON MANDELA If people spent more time focusing on their own issues, rather than those of others, we could cure t... TRAVIS J HEDRICK For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame... KAHLIL GIBRAN Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea... IAN MACKAYE Well, each person sets their own preferences. The most important idea is that people can choose what... DAVID MERRILL Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever ... THOMAS JEFFERSON Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sens... STOKELY CARMICHAEL A lot of people like me don't have the knowledge ? and courage ? to start their own investments. BO APOSTOLACHE I just want to ask people to hold on and pretend these boys might be their own children. 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they are just being positive in their own way. MIROR_VEGAS The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les... RICHARD M. NIXON A person can never make own good points understand to the people who have not made good their own li... ANUJ SOMANY This was a small idea that grew wings. We've been so fortunate for the people who have come on their... GENARO MARIN There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's ho... AGONA APELL The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. MARGARET MITCHELL to see our people returned to their own original villages. ABDUL LATIF Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late ni... KURT COBAIN Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. LESLYE WALTON I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rh... GILLIAN ZINSER Weak are the people who give up without doing justice to their own feelings. – Shahwan SETHI MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why worry about what people think of us do we have more confidence in their opinions than in our ... PETER T. MCINTYRE People should follow their own energy. WILL SCHULTZ People should protect their own rights. LU TINGFEI The greatest thing any person can be in life is their own teacher. TYLER J. HEBERT Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions BOOTH TARKINGTON Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. BOOTH TARKINGTON You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations ... COLIN POWELL It is deeply frustrating and inappropriate when companies borrow or refashion such technologies as t... ERIC SPRUNK
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