"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."
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"We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."
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"You change people by delight, by pleasure."
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"People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature."
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"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
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"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
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"The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
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"People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace."
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"There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane."
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"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
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"The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference."
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"I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again."
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"People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure."
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"People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives."
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"Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education."
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"I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character."
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"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."
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"Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason."
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"What people do for the struggle of power is madness."
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"We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us."
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