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David Dinkins

"Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again."

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"Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again."

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

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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."

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

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

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"Give light and people will find the way."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

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"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones."
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"We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time."
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"I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there."
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"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor."
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"My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people."
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"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
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"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do."
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"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet."
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