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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
Any man who wants to be president
is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
We must make it clear that a platform
of "I hate gay men and women'
is not a way to become president of the United States.
- Jimmy Carter
Campaign behavior for wives:
Always be on time.
Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car
so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I look forward to these confrontations with the press
to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things
that come to me as president.
- Jimmy Carter
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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