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"What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people."
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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life."

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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