"People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images."
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"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
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"History is just new people making old mistakes."
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"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."
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"We do not judge the people we love."
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"Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70."
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"Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together."
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"Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
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"If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain."
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"A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal."
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"I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another."
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"The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable."
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"It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed."
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"I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able to laugh off a lot of things between myself and others, but it's still difficult trying to look at things from their perspectives."
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"If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave."
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"All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss."
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"Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for."
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"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live."
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"When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience."
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"Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine."
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