"Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think."
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"Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat."
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"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!"
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"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."
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"I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies."
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"The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!"
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"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."
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"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society."
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"People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living."
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"Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
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"...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting."
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"There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way."
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"Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist."
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"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government."
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"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
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"When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself."
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"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence."
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""Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy.""
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"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
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