People Quotes - Page 15

• There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

  Walter Reuther

  Freedom, Power, Men

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• If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

  Greg Graffin

  Determination, Believe, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

  Emmett Shear

  Mistake, Thinking, Talking

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Religion, Different

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memories, Past, Want

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• Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Book, Humor

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• People who get implants, it's so depressing, you know... People - I don't know. The route of that, you know, maybe they want more love or attention, or what it is, but they always go for the most obvious place, you know? Here... Well if you really want more attention, why not get them in your eyes? And then move your eyes down to where your nipples used to be, put your breasts up on your head, everybody will pay attention!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Depressing, Moving

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Rap, Right Now

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Believe, Way

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• Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Mind, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.82

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• Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Trying, Negative, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.

  John Stott

  Christian, Responsibility, Inspire

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• Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Men, Wild Places, Choices

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• Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.

  Tracy Morgan

  Worry, Littles, Little Things

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• The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

  F. F. Bruce

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

  Edward Albee

  Degrees, Make Sense

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The next time I move I hope I get a real easy phone number, something like 2222222. People will ask, "Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?" I'll say, "Just press two for a while, when I answer, you'll know that you've pressed two enough."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Moving

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Dream, Zero

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• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Spain

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• I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

  Bob Geldof

  Thinking, Organization, World

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• I want to be funny. When I first started writing, I didn't find my stories funny, but people kept saying they were. It kind of worried me; these are some pretty disturbing and sad pieces. Why do people think they're funny?

  Deb Olin Unferth

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

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• But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Views, Etc

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• It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, Politics, Needs

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• Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Car, Age, Complaining

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