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  • Walter Lippmann No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • William S. Burroughs No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ben Elton No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Lord Chesterfield No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Anton Chekhov No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bert McCracken No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Taylor Swift No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Robin Williams No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Jascha Heifetz No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
    Jascha Heifetz
    American-Russian violinist (1901 - 1987)
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  • Billy Dee Williams No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Neil deGrasse Tyson No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    American astrophysicist, planetary scientist and author (1958 - )
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  • Euripides No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Brian Tracy No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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