"When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people."
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"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
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"I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done."
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"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
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"Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State."
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"The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss.""
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"Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon."
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"It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."
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"If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here, you know."
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"To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them."
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"City life is millions of people being lonesome together."
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"Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?"
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"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."
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"People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved."
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"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
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"We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans."
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"When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind."
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"People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation."
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"People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time."
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