Quotes 4001 till 4020 of 5261.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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The reason why people so of ten disagree in discussion is that they sar what they do not think.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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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.
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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon.
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