"If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it."
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"I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet."
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"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
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"We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad."
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"Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people."
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"We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple."
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"Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably."
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"I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people."
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"The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people."
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"In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy."
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"Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place."
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"There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception."
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"The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question."
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"The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."
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"The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me."
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"That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk."
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"I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me."
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"If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations."
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"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together."
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