"Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you."
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"Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no."
"Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
"Choose your team carefully. So much of your success is due to the people who you surround yourself with. Your friends, your family, and the people that you work with -- they all play an important role in inspiring you and supporting you and giving you stability. These are the people in your life who will be honest with you."
"If you want to be rich, simply serve more people."
"But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people."
"The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence."
"Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers."
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."
"All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them."
"When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles."
"In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people."
"People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself."
"People who don't think shouldn't talk."
"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."
"There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers."
"We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not."
"If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty."
"No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power."
"Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty."