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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

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We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

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This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose

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We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

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