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What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
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There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.
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Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
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The people are to be taken in small doses.
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
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No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
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All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained -- then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.
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I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.
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That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.
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Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
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There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
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There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.
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People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you.
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
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We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
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I am a deeply superficial person.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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