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  • Albert Ellis People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Bill Keller People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Ayn Rand People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Edmund Burke People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau People die of fright and live of confidence.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Louisa May Alcott People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Brooks Atkinson People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Richard Thalheimer People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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  • George Bernard Shaw People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adrian Edmondson People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Ezra Pound People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ann Patchett People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Bill Buford People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Aaron Stanford People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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