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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

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In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

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People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.

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I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

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I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

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Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.

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