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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
Eric ClaptonRead
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRead
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
Bill GatesRead
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
Tim Berners-LeeRead
If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!
Tim Berners-LeeRead
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
Bruce SchneierRead
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
Bruce SchneierRead
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Lord ChesterfieldRead
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. GladstoneRead
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John UpdikeRead
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
William JamesRead
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin FranklinRead
There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
Woody HayesRead
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
MenciusRead
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
John RuskinRead
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
Tom ClancyRead
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
Mark RothkoRead
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
Richard HofstadterRead
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
George Bernard ShawRead
All authority belongs to the people.
Thomas JeffersonRead
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James JoyceRead

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