"When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse."
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"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination."
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"I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual."
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"What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice."
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"Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it."
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"I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life."
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"The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them."
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"The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time."
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"...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points."
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"The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack."
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"Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free."
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"If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality."
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"People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond."
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"I try not to invent things that people don't need."
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"Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement."
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
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"A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to."
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"Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane."
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"Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh."
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"People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome."
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