"People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'"
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"I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness."
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"A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama."
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"[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well."
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"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
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"The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
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"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con."
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"Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs."
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"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."
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"You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it."
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"Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead."
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"Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions."
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"People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others."
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"Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed."
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"We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues."
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"You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do."
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"You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can."
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"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."
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"Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence."
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"Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights."
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