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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

Government, Wise, Sense

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar

Life, Great, Smart

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Love, Person, Another

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.
Susan Orlean

Time, Hate, Thought

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
Susan Orlean

Time, Mind, Days

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
David Bailey

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
David Attenborough

Rather, Group, Animal

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre

Great, Idea, Crime

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
Lester Bangs

Music, Changes, Particular

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
Stephen Sondheim

Movies, Generation, Shows

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Christopher Lasch

Lost, Opinion, Sense

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
King Hussein I

Work, Through, Country

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Danica McKellar

Famous, She, Actually

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
Antonio Banderas

Character, Found, Worked

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
Fred Durst

School, Kid, Beat

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
Reba McEntire

Friend, Real, Friends

I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.
Johnny Vegas

Money, Wedding, Enough

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
Dave Grohl

Family, Lost, Friends

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
Waylon Jennings

Here, Wanted, Might

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch

Liars, Parents, Done

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Miranda Lambert

Music, Country, Wants

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.
Mindy Kaling

Written, Universal, Concerns

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Growing, Reaction

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
Tony Blair

Faith, Work, Respect

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
Rand Paul

Vote, Against, Incredibly

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield

Education, Freedom, Justice

Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
Amanda Seyfried

Love, Nice, School

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
Arlen Specter

Republican, Knew, Party

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.
Michael Bloomberg

Play, Victory, Else

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
Thomas Frank

Focus, Through, Talk

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