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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
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People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
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People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
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People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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