People Quotes
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"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"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 great."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
-Thomas Jefferson
-Thomas Jefferson
"If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living."
-Yiddish proverb
-Yiddish proverb
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch."
-Rita Mae Brown
-Rita Mae Brown
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them."
-T. S. Eliot
-T. S. Eliot
"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."
-Ann Landers
-Ann Landers
"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones."
-Charles F. Kettering
-Charles F. Kettering
"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."
-Vernon Howard
-Vernon Howard
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."
-Abraham J. Heschel
-Abraham J. Heschel
"When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing."
-Catherine Ponder
-Catherine Ponder
"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
-Milan Kundera
-Milan Kundera
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
-Prince Charles
-Prince Charles
"People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests."
-Marian Wright Edelman
-Marian Wright Edelman
"No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."
-Marian Anderson
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