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Truman Capote quote: "You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself."
You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. Truman Capote
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it. Alan Bennett
Orson Scott Card quote: "And Americans always think international laws are for other..."
And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway, Orson Scott Card
That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything. Paulo Coelho
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet. Henry James
Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest."Bill Talcott - Organizer Studs Terkel
Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. Howard Schultz
It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. Betty Smith
The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows. Barry Unsworth
It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am sane. Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood
Andrew Carnegie quote: "TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon..."
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie
The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities. Richard Carlson
Mitch Albom quote: "But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man..."
But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. Mitch Albom
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets. Jay-Z

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