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People Quotes
"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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"People will try to break you, hate you, ignore youBut if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you."
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"What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized."
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"Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!"
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"Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning."
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"When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay."
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"We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people."
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"I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard."
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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics."
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed."
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"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them."
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh."
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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world."
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"Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you."
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"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."
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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
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"But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons."
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"I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him."
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"What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills."
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"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer."
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"If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself."
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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."
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"That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist."
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
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