"There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself."
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"THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly."
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"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."
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"Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day."
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"Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long."
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"The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges."
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"We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming."
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"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."
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"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people."
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"And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight."
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"[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league."
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"People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house.""
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"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
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"The purpose of art is to bring people into presence."
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"Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day."
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"Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who."
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"I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves."
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"I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think."
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"If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th."
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"People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions."
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