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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
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The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes
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I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit "highbrow", I've always considered myself a popular artist.
Maxfield Parrish
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Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
David Brinkley
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Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat.
It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Is it a terrible thing to be lonely?
Carl Sandburg
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Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
James Ellroy
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There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.
Käthe Kollwitz
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich
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Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses!
Mrs Patrick Campbell
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
John Betjeman
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere.
E. B. White
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In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
John Reed (journalist)
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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.
Mary Cassatt
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.
Margaret Chase Smith
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