"If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong."
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"The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life."
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"If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want."
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"I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about."
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"While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic."
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"I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change."
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"Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing."
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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
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"In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we."
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"I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up."
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"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."
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"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
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"Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
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"Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"
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"I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass."
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"Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records."
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"Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties."
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"Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion."
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"People mistake their limitations for high standards."
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