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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

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People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.

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Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

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You can stroke people with words.

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There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.

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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

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If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

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I don't understand how poor people think.

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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

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