"If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women."
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"It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore."
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"I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural."
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"Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me."
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"Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas."
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"People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!"
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"I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly."
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"Things inspiring me - good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice... by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather than does pyrotechnics... and people playing really musically. Music is endlessly fascinating."
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"People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it."
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"It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats"
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"Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense."
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"People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get."
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"I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves."
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"... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance."
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"Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment."
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"The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one."
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"By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought."
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"It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable, and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. They will not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it."
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"I am for people. I can't help it."
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"It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her."
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