"What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!"
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"In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command."
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"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide."
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"I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is."
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"The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature."
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"It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others."
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"Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride."
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"Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation."
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"People generally despise where they flatter."
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"Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them."
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"The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy."
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"Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do."
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"People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life."
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"All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant."
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"A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos."
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"I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important."
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"Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!"
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"I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me."
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"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
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"What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me."
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