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"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people." »Douglas Adams
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"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people." »Hair
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"The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"people often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever." »Philip Adams
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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." »Frank Zappa
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"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more." »Woody Allen
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"...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth." »Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
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"Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all." »Stephen Butler Leacock
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"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin" »Bill Watterson
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." »Oscar Wilde
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"Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet." »Michael J. Gelb
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"Once there was The people - Terror gave it birth Once there was The people, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The people - it shall never be again" »Rudyard Kipling
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"Once there was The people - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The people, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The people - it shall never be again!" »Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
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"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile." »Unknown
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"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." »Abraham Lincoln
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"When people have hope that their economic conditions can improve by simply working harder, they care less about politics and religion, they may not like many things in their society but they are unlikely to get angry to a point of violent uprising or dividing the country. When people feel stuck or when they are poor and do not have much to lose, they are more likely to rise against the people in power." »Med Jones
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." »Unknown
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"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them." »Joseph Heller
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." »Fran Lebowitz
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John F. Kennedy
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." »Oscar Wilde
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" »Lao Tzu
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"I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet." »Andrew Schneider
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"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." »Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people." »Lee Iacocca
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"Some people see things that are and ask, Why Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ..." »George
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