"There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses"
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"The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages."
"People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there."
"I've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place; I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me."
"Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them."
"I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits"
"When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop."
"Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude."
"To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist."
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear."
"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
"Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt."
"I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever."
"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
"I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in."
"People can cry much easier than they can change."
"Very few people can afford to be poor."
"My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them."
"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."