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People Quotes
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport."
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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
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"Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable."
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"Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
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"If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line."
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"We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not."
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"We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves."
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"There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff."
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"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around."
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"We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people."
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"A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press."
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"Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper."
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"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
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"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving."
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"I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away."
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"When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd."
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"When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream."
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"There are probably already too many people on the planet."
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"People are idiots, Choo. Always remmber that: people are faithless, backstabbing, weak, creepy, stupid, lazy idiots."
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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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"It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places."
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"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another."
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"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
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"File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever."
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"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
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"Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly."
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"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."
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"While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action."
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"If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken."
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"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."
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"Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them."
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"Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition."
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"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped."
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