"Optimism is the opium of the people."
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"Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness."
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"If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway."
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"If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway."
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"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
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"Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . ."
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"I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice"
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"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
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"I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories."
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"Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters"
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"There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit."
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"until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing."
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"For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before."
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"Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people."
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"... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it."
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"People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people."
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"I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people."
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"When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous."
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"We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world."
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"Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person."
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