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John Betjeman

"People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors."

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"People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors."

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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."

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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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"I think that, people are people. That's why the way I treat the lady working in the deli who slices my ham is the same way I treat my friend who drives a Chrysler. That's why the way I treat the guy who packs my groceries is the same way I treat my rich friends. Because people are people. Some are rich and some are poor, and they're all people."

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Amber Hurdle

"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

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