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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
(Daniel Webster (1782-1852), U.S. lawyer, statesman. speech, Jan. 26, 1830, U.S. Senate. Second speech on Foote's Resolution, vol. 6, The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster (1903).)
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There are three kinds of people:
White people, Colored people
and Black people.
(Peter Abrahams (b. 1919), Jamaican/South African writer. Tell Freedom (l. 81-84). . .
Poems from Black Africa. Langston Hughes, ed. (1963) Indiana University Press.)
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Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
(Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Quoted in "Saved: Bob Dylan's Conversion to Christianity," Wanted Man, ed. John Bauldie (1990).
On stage, Nov. 26, 1979, in Tempe, Arizona.)
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 7 (1891).)
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. first published in The Fortnightly Review (Feb. 1891). The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895).)
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
(Frank Zappa (1940-1994), U.S. rock musician. Chicago Tribune (Jan. 18, 1978).)
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
(Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950), U.S. humorist. Social Studies, ch. 1 (1981).)
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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