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People Quotes
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
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"It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle."
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"All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that."
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"I think that, people are people. That's why the way I treat the lady working in the deli who slices my ham is the same way I treat my friend who drives a Chrysler. That's why the way I treat the guy who packs my groceries is the same way I treat my rich friends. Because people are people. Some are rich and some are poor, and they're all people."
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"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
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"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."
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"Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him."
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"I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences."
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"There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?"
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"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves."
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"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"
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"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves."
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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
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"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"Optimism is the opium of the people."
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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to."
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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
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"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know."
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"Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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