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RAGHURAM RAJAN I believe in the greatness of our people.
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JAMES VOTRUBA I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
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KAREN MARSHALL Life's Irony;Most people believe in democracy just because they are beneficiaries of the system.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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LEE ATKINS Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people belie...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I think anybody in office — Republican or Democrat — is somewhat concerned, because, unlike a lo...
CARL FORTI I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more st...
ELIZABETH PEYTON Angry people want you to see how powerful they are... loving people want you to see how powerful You...
CHIEF RED EAGLE Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force ...
SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON I believe in one that all people are dreaming. This now, past and future is just a long dream, some ...
DEYTH BANGER In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that h...
BARNEY FRANK Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
LES BROWN (MUSICIAN) Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
LES BROWN …but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
JANE AUSTEN The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Bec...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their ...
WARREN G. BENNIS Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they wan...
DANNY SILK Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the wor...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, l...
ADAM BAGDASARIAN Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not b...
ISAAC BARROW Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all t...
DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Most people believe in God because they think he's comforting, not because they think he's real.
JOYCE RACHELLE We are very excited to be adding both Harold and Eric to our scouting staff. We feel very strongly t...
DAVE NONIS People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
GILLIAN FLYNN The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would hav...
JUSTIN BECKETT We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being d...
MAX BAUCUS Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than becau...
MANDY HALE A daddy was listening to his child say his prayer "Dear Harold," ........ At this, dad interrupted a...
UNKNOWN Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don’t believe me...
WILL ADVISE The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe i...
DR. CYRIL CLARKE There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into...
CONRAD HILTON Most people dwell in that negative space because so many are conditioned to believe it is all they d...
CARLOS WALLACE I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to car...
MARK HADDON The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we bel...
ROMéO DALLAIRE I always had an admiration for people who stand up for what they believe in, even if it's against al...
JULIAN RAINWATER I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
LORETTA YOUNG There people who are happy that they made a powerful weapon, there are people disappointed that they...
BRANDITTES CHUA Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. L...
CHARLES S. LAUER Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not...
MARLA GIBBS They say in heaven love comes first, but even though it is a beautiful and powerful emotion does it ...
GARY F EVANS... Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: I...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly ed...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a...
JAMES H. ROBINSON We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a...
JAMS HARVEY ROBINSON We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a...
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in somethin...
DANIELLE VALENILLA Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
ROBBIE COLTRANE People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because peop...
TERRY GOODKIND It was very powerful for our clients. We believe very strongly in what people can do and building on...
JENNIFER CLARK They have parking and, unlike other buildings, they do tend to lend themselves to conversions.
ANDREW DOLLINGER For many people, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We are grateful to have so many business ...
BILL MILLIKEN Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're...
CHER Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for ...
MICHAEL SHERMER In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that H...
RACHEL JOYCE Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
ALICE HOFFMAN Unlike other vendors, we have no lock-in.
SHAI AGASSI But it took a Murrow, because Murrow had an audience unlike any of these other guys.
GRANT HESLOV There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolis...
CHARLES KOCH We believe that it is a facility unlike any other in the U.S. refining industry or perhaps the world...
DAVID HARPOLE I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character c...
BILL LAWRENCE I don't believe in changing my style because something's a trend, ... People are mislead: They think...
RACHEL ZOE Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, rememb...
SERGEY BRIN the human mind is very powerful, people always say they CANT do something but if they believe in the...
MIKE GRIST Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as s...
CRISS JAMI Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think ...
JAMES HOWE I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
MAHESH BABU Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
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LARRY WILSON It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empo...
JACK MA Some people don’t believe in borders and some people don’t believe in other people’s borders.
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HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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HAROLD WARNER Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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HAROLD ROBBINS Hemingway was a jerk.
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HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
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HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist.
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HAROLD BRODKEY Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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HAROLD BLOOM Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
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HAROLD BLOOM I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
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HAROLD BLOOM So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD GENEEN