Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 2063.
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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.
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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.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
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People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
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People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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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.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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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.
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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
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Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007) -
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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