"Most people see what is, and never see what can be."
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"Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything."
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"Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people."
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"If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary."
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"We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”"
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"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."
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"People are bloody ignorant apes."
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"Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically."
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"People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough.""
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
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"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten."
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"Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts."
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"Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever."
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"Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for."
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"I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for."
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"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
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"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."
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"It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own."
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"When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it."
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"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."
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