Quotes with -they

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  • Bill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Lao-Tzu People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Carlisle Floyd People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Aldous Huxley People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sandburg People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw.
    People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Cate Blanchett People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • David Mamet People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Bob Nelson People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
    Bob Nelson
    American comedian and actor (1958 - )
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  • Edmund Burke People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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  • Nelson Mandela People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • John Harrigan People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
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  • Tryon Edwards People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Hazlitt People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bodhidharma People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Bette Davis People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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