"There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."
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"I think it's that wherever I go, people are so nice to me, and they come up by the hundreds, and they say nice, funny things. As an actor, I just like to make people happy, make them laugh. That's our job, to entertain, and if I'm entertaining you folks, then I'm happy."
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"I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se."
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"I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations."
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"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."
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"A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual."
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"Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people."
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"The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself."
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"it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly."
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"Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic."
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"And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury."
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"People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone."
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"White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples."
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"We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics."
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"The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely."
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"No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people."
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"You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code."
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"I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks."
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"The most important step of all is the first step. Start something! What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people? You owe it to the world ot act. Or maybe it will help only a few people: The same advice applies. If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped."
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"People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book."
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