"I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done."
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"The organization is, above all, social. It is people."
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"This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people."
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"One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses."
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"There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world."
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"I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate."
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"Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries."
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"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions."
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"It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible."
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"I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!"
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"I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that."
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"The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth."
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"So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them."
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"Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty."
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"It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form."
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"I'm reasonably headstrong about what I believe in, and what I go for, and I've got fantastic people around me who give me great support and advice."
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"People need revelation, and then they need resolution."
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"I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry."
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"No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil"
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"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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