"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
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"The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed."
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"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."
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"This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people."
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"Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high."
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"Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough."
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"I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply."
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"Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you"
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"The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder."
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"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
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"If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them."
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"I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it."
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"Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people."
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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."
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"Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals."
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"I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved."
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"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."
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"The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within."
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"It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice."
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