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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was no...

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Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision,...

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Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't...

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In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a boo...

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When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and...

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people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and inte...

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There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential ...

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Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awar...

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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the ...

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Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're alwa...

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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks ...

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Dennis LehaneA Drink Before the War

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secular...

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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength...

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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with o...

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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder t...

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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much ...

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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people i...

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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his p...

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For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've be...

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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all r...

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Diana Wynne JonesHowl's Moving Castle

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about techn...

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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows...

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People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...

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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of...

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Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a c...

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As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are...

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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we e...

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God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot...

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Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other peo...

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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furth...

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Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and ev...

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I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still lov...

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When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably ...

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You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the...

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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living t...

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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, ju...

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I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. ...

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You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and ...

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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...

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I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling peopl...

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A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to di...

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People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't...

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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

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The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most ...

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I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probabl...

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I watched 60 Minutes...and they showed this woman, she's in every kind of..thing like that. 'This wo...

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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people...

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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a typ...

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underes...

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And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with d...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breakin...

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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horr...

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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes b...

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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people...

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I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not j...

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The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and priv...

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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to...

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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their...

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The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very g...

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the o...

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E. B. WhiteCharlotte's Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte's Web

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...

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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has ...

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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like ma...

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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your po...

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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written b...

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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock ...

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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunsling...

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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different...

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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind thei...

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As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are...

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.