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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

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For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

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I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

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There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

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But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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