The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

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The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear "fashion" they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you're really successful in the truest sense.

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself

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Foolish people never want to be reminded of how great they can be, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have to be reminded. ― Elise Forier Edie

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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It's lovely to see people so happy. ― Louisa May Alcott

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And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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