"How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery."
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"When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can."
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"People don't smile because they're happy. They're happy because they smile."
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"It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be."
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"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
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"People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad."
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"You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out."
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"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
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"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."
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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."
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"I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models."
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"I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics."
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"There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards."
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"Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people."
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"Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts."
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"Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well."
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"Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!"
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"I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back."
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"My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed."
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"A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different."
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