"I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid."
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"It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces."
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"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."
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"It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating."
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"Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
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"We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good."
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"One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love."
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"You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."
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"Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy."
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"When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious."
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"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."
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"People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end."
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"Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them."
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"War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group."
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"You know you must be doing something right if old people like you."
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"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
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"Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him."
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"The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion."
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"The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing."
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"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
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