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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

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Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

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One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

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It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

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We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

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All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

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