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Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

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The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

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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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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

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The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

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If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

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I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

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Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

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All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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