"Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it."
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"How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?"
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"In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic."
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
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"The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all."
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"The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money."
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"It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think."
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"A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded."
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"We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents."
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"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."
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"She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another."
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"In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice."
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"Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas."
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"There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
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"I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol."
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"The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes."
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"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything."
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"The world makes room for passionate people."
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"I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me."
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