"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

Margaret Chase Smith, American Politician

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"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

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"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

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"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I always try to think before I talk."

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"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."

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"Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought."

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"Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought."

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"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk."

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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

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"Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation."

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"Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods."

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