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People Quotes (page 574)

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace. Seth Godin
Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives. Immanuel Kant
Chuck Klosterman quote: "I honestly believe that people of my generation despise..."
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. Chuck Klosterman
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair. Peter De Vries
To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one had either rejected or been rejected by these same bedroom companions. Alain de Botton
Terry Prachett quote: "The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that..."
The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it. Terry Prachett
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people. Madeleine L'Engle
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still..."
Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.[The lotus eater] W. Somerset Maugham
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Thomas Jefferson
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand. W. E. B. Du Bois
Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing. Plato
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they..."
The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay. Robert A. Heinlein
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts. Barack Obama
Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead. Salman Rushdie
In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn. James Thurber

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