"People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them."
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"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."
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"Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed.""
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"Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it."
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"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."
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"Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
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"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."
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"People who give will never be poor."
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"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart."
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"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings."
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"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."
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"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."
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"When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too."
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"The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God."
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"No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you."
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"Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like."
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"Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls."
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"For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can."
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"I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it."
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"And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education."
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