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The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.

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In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

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People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

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Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

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I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action. But one of the things that I do think is important is to be able to explain to the American people what you're doing, and why you're doing it. That is something that I think every great president has been able to do. From FDR to Lincoln to John Kennedy to Eisenhower.

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In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

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The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

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By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

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The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.

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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

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People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

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Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

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I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'

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Ordinary people can bring about change.

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