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“Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.”

People Country Cities Nice Roots My Favorite Los Angeles Chicago Favorite City

Author:Bill Rancic

“I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.”

People Way Should Shows Moving Team Youth Grew Grew Up Roots Sticks Loyalty Graves Devotion Suspicious Baltimore

Author:Frank Deford

“Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.”

People Thinking World Important Shows Courses Television Roots Killing Radio Lists Violent Hopefully Diets Television Shows Non Violent Basic Things

Author:Casey Kasem

“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.”

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Author:L. Fletcher Prouty

“For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.”

People Wells Matter Path Roots No Matter What Historical Currents Pilots Ideological Passengers

Book:Freedom Summer

Source: Freedom Summer

“The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.”

People Littles Use Bigs Guy Groups Arms Roots Other Guys Python

Author:Ken Griffey, Jr.

“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.”

People Ifs Long Broken Roots Broken Up

Author:Arthur Miller

“People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."”

People Has Beens Country America Dies Enemy Roots Germany Japan Primitive Motto North America Formidable Hog

Author:D. W Brogan

“People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.”

People Roots Strikes Phrases Hotel Guests Dwellers

Author:E. V. Lucas

“I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.”

People Mean Ideas Ends Poverty Office Roots Corruption

Author:Benigno Aquino III

“Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.”

People World Two Running Earth Millions Six Built Roots Passionate Billions Foraging

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”

People Firsts Greatness Hero Worship Spring Roots Tyranny Champion Tyrants Nurse Plato Protector

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)”

Source: The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide