"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water."
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"People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country."
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"What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them."
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"A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments."
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"People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that."
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"I believe that a politician needs to be with people."
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"For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences."
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"You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame."
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"In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it."
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"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly"."
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"There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts."
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"As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too."
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"I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?"
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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."
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"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
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"History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property."
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"I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong."
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"Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
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"The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union."
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