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Hair	The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Philip Adams

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Abraham Lincoln

...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Michael J. Gelb

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

Bill Watterson

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin

Rudyard Kipling

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again

Unknown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Andrew Schneider

I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Lee Iacocca

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

George

Some people see things that are and ask, Why Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...

Smiley Blanton

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Lao Tzu

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.'

Simone Weil

Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Joseph Stalin

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Abraham Lincoln

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

George Bernard Shaw

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

August Strindberg

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

X2 X-Men United

Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Lord Chesterfield

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Will Cuppy

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Harvey Mackay

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

Charles De Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Anthony Robbins

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anon.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Wilson Mizner

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Edward Morgan Forster

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Dwight Morrow

The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.

Robert Jensen

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Lisa Alther

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Leo Tolstoy

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Michael Marino

Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.

Brian Tracy

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me

James Gordon

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Alan Alda

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least s

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest o

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, an

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils¡ªpeople who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you?People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And whe

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gr

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging fr

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars

[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather th

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do t

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.