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Our People Quotes (page 18)

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem! Jared Diamond
Pablo Picasso quote: "People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone...."
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age... Pablo Picasso
Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to destroy either of these contrary instincts, they seek to satisfy both at once. They imagine a single, omnipotent, tutelary power, but one that is elected by the citizens. They combine centralization with popular sovereignty. This gives them some respite. They console themselves for being treated as wards by imagining that they have chosen their own... Alexis de Tocqueville
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions. Steve Wozniak
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. Lawrence Durrell
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel
Bill Moyers quote: "Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of..."
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. Bill Moyers
Christopher Morley quote: "People like to imagine that because all our mechanical..."
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. Christopher Morley
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change. Daniel Keys Moran
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. Candice S. Miller
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers. Sid Meier
Timothy McVeigh quote: "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For..."
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Timothy McVeigh
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. David Ben-Gurion
Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything. George Grove
Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' Matt Groening

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