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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
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The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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 only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
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)
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
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
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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