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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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  • Caroline B. Cooney People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Forsyth People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Richard J. Needham People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
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  • Albert Bandura People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Calvin Klein People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ogden Nash People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Brian Friel People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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  • Bob Newhart People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Henry Jacobsen People would rather be wrong than be different.
    Henry Jacobsen
    Norwegian politician (1898 - 1964)
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Betjeman People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Ben Hecht People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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