Mercy Otis Warren Quotes
No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
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What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
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My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.
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One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
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My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
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Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
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You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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Always be nice to people. Whatever how bad they are to you. To show them you are not like them.
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No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.