"Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people."
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"When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody."
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"Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here."
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"I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result of a brainwashing technique, a certain power structure in the American government has paid these Negro integrationist leaders to perpetuate among our people. But it's not a good thing, and it will never solve our problem."
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"...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values."
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"Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection."
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"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."
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"Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway"
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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."
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"A people without a heritage are easily persuaded."
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"There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life."
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"Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun."
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"Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done"
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"The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing."
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"Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
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"When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else."
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"Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact."
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"When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."
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"I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."
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