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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Douglas Adams
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing."
Graham Greene
"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing."
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
Doug Coupland
"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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"People die when curiosity goes."
Graham Swift
"People die when curiosity goes."
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"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
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"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
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"You are only as good as the people you dress."
Halston
"You are only as good as the people you dress."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
Lydia Sigourney
"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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"About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man."
Richard Dawson
"About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man."
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"If you fire people, you fire customers."
Ferdinand Piech
"If you fire people, you fire customers."
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"Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'"
Mischa Barton
"Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'"
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"It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people."
George Edward Moore
"It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people."
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"You're an unusual person," she said."Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so-so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become-broadened in his outlook?"
Philip K. Dick
"You're an unusual person," she said."Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so-so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become-broadened in his outlook?"
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"You're as good as the people you're with."
Brian M. Bendis
"You're as good as the people you're with."
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"Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you."
Stephen Lawrence
"Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you."
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"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
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"I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people."
Jeanette Winterson
"I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people."
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"I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well."
Dean Koontz
"I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well."
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"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
John Steinbeck
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
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"These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people."
Kevin Ayers
"These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people."
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"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isaac Asimov
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
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"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
Oscar Wilde
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
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"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
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"I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices."
John Henry Mackay
"I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices."
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"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire."
Confucius
"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire."
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"I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy."
Chris Wallace
"I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy."
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"I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave."
Claude Berri
"I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave."
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"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."
Mason Cooley
"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."
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"Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people."
Stella Blum
"Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people."
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"People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!"
Margaret Forster
"People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!"
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"Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with."
Rachel Corrie
"Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with."
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"Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country."
Yahya Jammeh
"Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country."
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"Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear."
Maria Shriver
"Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear."
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"When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them."
Amy Ray
"When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them."
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"I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful."
James Haven
"I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful."
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"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
Oscar Wilde
"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
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"Very few people can afford to be poor."
George Bernard Shaw
"Very few people can afford to be poor."
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"I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less."
Corey Clark
"I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less."
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"As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned."
Robert J. Dole
"As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned."
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"I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process."
Will Oldham
"I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process."
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"When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!"
Bob Mould
"When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!"
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"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height."
Victor Hugo
"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height."
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"I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there."
Eddie Mathews
"I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there."
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"The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom."
Julian Lincoln Simon
"The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom."
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"During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet."
Ferdinand Piech
"During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet."
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"People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind."
Donald Fagen
"People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind."
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"I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs."
Roger Angell
"I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs."
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"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
Gene Tierney
"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
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"We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous."
Richard Williams
"We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous."
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