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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Oscar Wilde
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. -Oscar Wilde
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde
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If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish proverb
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. -Thomas Jefferson
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan
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Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch.

Rita Mae Brown
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T. S. Eliot
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them.

Ann Landers
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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Ann Landers
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People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -Charles F. Kettering
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard
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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Hermann Hesse
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham J. Heschel
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When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Catherine Ponder
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People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Milan Kundera
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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. -Henry David Thoreau
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Marian Wright Edelman
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All the disconnected people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. -David Gayson
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No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Marian Anderson
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughes
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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. -Gillian Anderson
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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

Voltaire
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy De Maupassant
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There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities. -Geoffrey Fisher
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