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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

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Most people are as happy as they want to be.

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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 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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It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

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I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

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Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of.

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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

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I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

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