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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."
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"Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start."
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"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
Nature

"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
Perception

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death

"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
People

"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man

"Woman absent is woman dead."
Woman

"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
Car

"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."
Cure

"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."
Food

"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."
Money
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