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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.

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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

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As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

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That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

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I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

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I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

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I filmed myself drunk, just to see what I'm like. I watched so many funny videos of people drunk on YouTube.

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Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

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The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

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I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.

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