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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
People

"You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
People

"Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
People

"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."

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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
People

"there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture."

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Daryl Gates Police Chief
People

"We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people."

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Dave Chappelle Comedian, Actor, Writer
People

"I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you."

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David Allen Author
People

"People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction."

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David Allen Author
People

"What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
People

"Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence."

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David Edward Musician
People

"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense."

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David Simon Television Producer
People

"One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage."

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