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DW Philosophical

“There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They’re magical people. They have special power.”

CK
Caroline Kennedy Author, Attorney
Inspired

“The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.”

CK
Caroline Kennedy Author, Attorney
Wise

“I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.”

CK
Caroline Kennedy Author, Attorney
Adventurous

“I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.”

CW
Carolyn Wells Author
Sad

“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”

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CW
Carolyn Wells Author
Grateful

“In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Wise

“I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Confident

“People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Courageous

“Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Angry

“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.”

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Angry

“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.”

Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Angry

“Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is, I've been in lots of place growing up and listening to people tell great tales of sexual conquest. It is an immature thing to do -”

Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
Philosophical

“Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?”

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BH
Benjamin Harrison Politician
Wise

“There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial”

Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Sad

“Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.”

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Sad

“We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.”

DG
Daryl Gates Police Chief
Funny

“No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.”

Dave Chappelle Comedian, Actor, Writer
Funny

“Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say "their life" I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.”

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