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  • Wayne Dyer People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Bill Cosby People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed. It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Frank Romer People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.
    Frank Romer
     
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  • Marcel Proust People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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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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  • Raoul Vaneigem People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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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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  • Bertie Carvel People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Carly Fiorina People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Will Rogers People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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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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  • Walter Savage Landor People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Barry Marshall Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Patrick Henry Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Robin George Collingwood Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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