"Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on."
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"Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is."
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"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
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"Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled."
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"In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this."
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"You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music."
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"You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success."
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"I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated."
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"The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you."
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"If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion."
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"We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly."
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"Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people."
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"You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again."
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"In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People."
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"People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another."
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"Sighted people, you gotta deal with them."
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"If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love."
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"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it."
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"People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way."
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"Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young."
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