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"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
Afif Safieh
"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
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"Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is."
Sinbad
"Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is."
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"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."
Buddy Hackett
"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."
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"There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great."
Jon Secada
"There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great."
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"To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners."
Roberto Clemente
"To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners."
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"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
Miguel de Icaza
"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
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"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."
Joe Sacco
"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."
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"We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country."
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country."
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"It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair."
Zalmay Khalilzad
"It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair."
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"Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people."
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
"Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people."
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"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."
Edwidge Danticat
"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."
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"Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories."
Bianca Jagger
"Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories."
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"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it."
Edwidge Danticat
"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it."
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"In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there."
Will Wright
"In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there."
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"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
Chinua Achebe
"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
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"If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't."
Ahmed Yassin
"If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't."
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"The killing of innocent people is always wrong."
Bianca Jagger
"The killing of innocent people is always wrong."
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"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."
Fiona Apple
"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."
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"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
V. S. Naipaul
"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
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"We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves."
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves."
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"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
Milos Forman
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
Susan Sontag
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
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"You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom."
Corazon Aquino
"You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom."
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"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."
Nnamdi Azikiwe
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."
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"The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless."
Bianca Jagger
"The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless."
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"The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child."
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
"The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child."
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
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"I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people."
Garry Kasparov
"I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people."
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"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
Henry A. Kissinger
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
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"There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements."
William Bligh
"There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements."
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"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
Ronnie Corbett
"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
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"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
Howard Zinn
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
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"We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer."
Ozzie Smith
"We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer."
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"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough."
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough."
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"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."
Jose Ramos Horta
"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."
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"People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to."
Jerry Seinfeld
"People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to."
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"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
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"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
Linus Torvalds
"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
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"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
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"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."
Fidel Castro
"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."
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"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born."
Linus Torvalds
"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born."
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"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
Dave Chappelle
"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
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"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."
Zahi Hawass
"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."
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"The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people."
Slobodan Milosevic
"The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people."
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"Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground."
Sammy Hagar
"Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground."
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"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
David Ogilvy
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
Philip K. Dick
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
Alan Kay
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
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"We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place."
Jerry Lewis
"We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place."
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"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
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