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Simone Weil

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

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

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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."

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

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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."

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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

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

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

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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

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

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"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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