"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

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

John Boehner, American Politician

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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."

Anne Weismann, American Lawyer

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

Emily Watson, English Actress

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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."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

Emily Bronte, English Novelist

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

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Memories, Life, Eternal

"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world."

Daniel Mainwaring, American Novelist

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"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."

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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

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"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

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"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

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"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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

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

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

"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world."

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"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself."

"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."