"Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination."
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"You don't have to take any drugs to experience the Juggalo world. That's where the magic comes in. Because it's fresh and magical to the people who enjoy it and the people who love it all by itself without any substances."
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"I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you."
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"Old people are often impatient, but for what?"
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"I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind."
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"If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate."
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"One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man."
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"Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings."
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"It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much."
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"The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism."
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"The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over."
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"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests."
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"A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God."
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"People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds."
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"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."
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"Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic."
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"Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands."
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"People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future."
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"Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them."
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"Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them."
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