"There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse."
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"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."
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"As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it."
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"The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited."
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"People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote."
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"Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh."
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"Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us…leave. And if that happens, it’s amazing the lengths we’ll go to, to get them back."
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"This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty."
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"People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings."
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"Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional."
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"Many people look but they do not see."
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"Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day."
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"I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore."
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"Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."
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"You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet."
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"I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love."
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"I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time."
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"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
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"The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting."
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"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them."
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