"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
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"It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."
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"When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves."
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"Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone."
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"The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at."
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"People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things."
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"We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people."
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"My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people."
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"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."
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"There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few."
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"When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned."
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"All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small."
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"I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own."
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"It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you."
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"When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died."
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"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time."
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"If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying."
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"It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it."
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"I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years."
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"Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed."
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