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"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
"People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it."
"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader."
"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions."
"The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up."
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
"The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law."
"People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect."
"It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on."
"Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people.""
"The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people."
"In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich."
"Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them."
"We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you."
"You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
"People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't."
"Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers."
"All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats."
". . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves."
"Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'."
