"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

People, Hollywood, Writing

"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

People, Suffering, Taste

"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

People, Excellence

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, May

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

People, Country

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults, Merit

"You can stroke people with words."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Words

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

People, states, United

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

Life, Reading

"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Politics, Politicians

"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."

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"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown."

Ambition, Greatness, Leading, Road

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

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"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

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"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last."

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."

"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."

"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown."

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."