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Quote 3120
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 3102
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2956
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitionsShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2925
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppressionby: John LockeShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2892
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starveShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2825
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lendby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2802
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move themShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2801
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogsShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2788
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to workby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2593
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideasShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2426
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talentsby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2350
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and witShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2349
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polishedShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 2310
What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do thisby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1982
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the fewShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1960
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the otherby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1934
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1808
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above anotherby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1806
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecutionby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1789
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1764
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human natureby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1755
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compassby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1648
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 1612
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselvesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1596
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can haveShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1574
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizensby: Daniel WebsterShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1532
Culture makes all men gentleby: MenandrosShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1514
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like workShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1505
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 1489
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1482
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have childrenby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1475
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 1473
Society is the union of men and not the men themselvesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1396
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody elseShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1376
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in loveby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1356
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserveby: Joseph JoubertShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1317
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.by: Josh BillingsShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1255
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 1230
People always make war when they say they love peaceShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1220
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each otherby: Mother TeresaShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1137
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educatedby: Horace MannShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1065
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the peopleShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1052
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellowsShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 1045
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your bestby: EpiktetShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 946
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all menShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 928
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankindby: John Stuart MillShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 899
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most sillyby: DiogenesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 854
The only security of all is in a free pressby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 829
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued themShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 814
All mankind love a loverShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 794
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 784
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the otherby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 680
Human blood is all one colourfrom EnglandShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 640
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 619
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 563
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbableShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 548
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinkingShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 541
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have rosesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 539
Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass itShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 517
A man can die but once.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 507
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of itby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 499
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statisticby: Josef StalinShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 498
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at mathShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 492
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the pressby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 488
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.by: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 481
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirksShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 462
Men argue; nature actsby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 451
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards othersShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 443
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 423
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say littleShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 415
I drink to make other people more interestingShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 409
Men willingly believe what they wishShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 407
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the lawby: AristotleShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 383
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a manby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 360
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become greatby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 352
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 325
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from himby: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 283
All men by nature desire knowledgeby: AristotleShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 275
Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the speciesShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 273
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are freeShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 266
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestorsby: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 263
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religiousby: Sigmund FreudShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 256
Those whom we support hold us up in lifeShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 254
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilizationby: Sigmund FreudShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 235
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody elseby: Will RogersShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 223
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter peopleby: Will RogersShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 221
Freedom means responsibility; that is the reason why most people are afraid of itShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 212
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everythingShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 208
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brotherShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 194
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to noneShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 192
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.Showing Quotes on people
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Quote 191
I may be no better than other people, but at least I am differentShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 190
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to manyby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 189
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in loveby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 171
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleby: PlatonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 170
You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussingby: PlatonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 167
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audaciousShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 162
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversityShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 159
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.by: XenophonShowing Quotes on people
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Quote 158
Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they goShowing Quotes on people
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