"When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing."
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"Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason."
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"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
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"Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it."
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"You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!"
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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
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"Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do."
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"The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy."
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"Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts."
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"I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing."
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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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"I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."
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"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses."
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"When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself."
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"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people."
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"Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like."
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"Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established."
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"The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it."
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"We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong."
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"Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours."
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