Quotes with people

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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
    Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • A. J. Liebling People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
    The New Yorker April 7, 1956
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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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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  • T. S. Eliot People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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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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  • Cass McCombs People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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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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  • Carlos Gershenson People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).
    Chorninky Notes
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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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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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec People find life entirely too time-consuming.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Howard W. Newton People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.
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  • Barry Ritholtz People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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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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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej People get angry at others who express a different opinion, while, in fact, they should be angry at themselves. But we must be angry at ourselves the most when we say something today, only to say something else tomorrow.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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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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