#folks

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

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Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are. ↗

— Sam Walton

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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ↗

— August Wilson

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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. ↗

— Sam Wyly

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On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

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I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

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I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. ↗

— Stedman Graham

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We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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