"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
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"I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood."
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"I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"See the good in people and help them."
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"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is."
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"Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends."
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"The most effective way to win people to Jesus is to treat them the way Jesus would day in and day out."
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"For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power."
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"Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper."
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"Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?"
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"There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot."
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"This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the enemy - the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors - rather than one part of our own people hating another part for the benefit of the Jews and their army of scum!"
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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
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"If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!"
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"I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win."
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"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
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"But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power."
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"I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things."
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"The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people."
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