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If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with ...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and c...

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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human be...

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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make t...

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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while...

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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact...

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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they fee...

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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a...

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Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to posi...

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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. So...

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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible du...

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Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, an...

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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I alw...

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Haruki MurakamiHear the Wind Sing

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, may...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, ...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, may...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone...

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I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want...

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It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable tofind a place inside ou...

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I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in li...

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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first on...

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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of anoth...

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Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.

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Haruki MurakamiWind/Pinball: Two Novels

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. I...

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single...

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What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what th...

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People says it gets easier. People are stupid."-Vlad

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the...

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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else...

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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...

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It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how...

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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...

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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admira...

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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within th...

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[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes...

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I never fight except against difficulties.

Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as y...

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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's...

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I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflict...

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When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their...

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People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questio...

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Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always a...

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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defen...

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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves bur...

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People so easily forget their past selves.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the t...

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point an...

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Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the...

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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for th...

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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent t...

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What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves i...

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We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the c...

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I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...

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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to s...

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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many peo...

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I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead o...

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It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go...

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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're put...

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Most Americans are very cool people.

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy w...

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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...

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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people ...

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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people...

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Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from t...

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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wrec...

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-f...

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I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutio...

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There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who wa...

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Herman CainThis Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have nev...

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wa...

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The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefor...

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You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We a...

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Hilaire BellocOn Nothing and Kindred Subjects

He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of peopl...

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Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chanc...

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The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religion...

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In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the no...

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I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I woul...

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

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One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you ...

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You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put p...

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

When anything gets freed a zest goes round the world.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created...

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