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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
People

"Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you."

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People

"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."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
People

"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."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
People

"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."

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Neil Simon Playwright
People

"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."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
People

"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."

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Leon Brown Artist
People

"People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
People

"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."

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D. A. Carson Theologian
People

"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."

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