"The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it."
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"Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place."
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"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
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"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
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"If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change."
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"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."
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"have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."
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"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."
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"People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again"
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"People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love."
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"There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless."
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"Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task."
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"Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people."
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"In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people."
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"Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
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"Tell people what specific action to take."
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"People who make no noise are dangerous."
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"If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?"
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"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."
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