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People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
Source: Bring Me a Unicorn (1971) -
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Source: The New Yorker April 7, 1956 -
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.
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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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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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.
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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
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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.
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People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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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.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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