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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. Mark Twain
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Solon
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them. Andy Warhol
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us. Iris Murdoch
If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people. Rick Warren
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. John Adams
Benny Hill quote: "Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth..."
Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born? Benny Hill
Lay down these words. Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands. In choice of place, set. Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with. Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional. Game of Go. ants and pebbles. In the thin loam, each rock... Gary Snyder
Mother Teresa quote: "If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one."
If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. Mother Teresa
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior. James Baldwin
J. D. Salinger quote: "Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it."
Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it. J. D. Salinger
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "He thought that the world would make more rapid progress..."
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
W. H. Auden quote: "No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when..."
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting. Louise Erdrich
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small caf in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Douglas Adams

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