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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
George Bernard Shaw
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark Twain
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
Michael Patrick King
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.
John Shelby Spong
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths
Mahatma Gandhi
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure....People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
Leo Tolstoy
Clever people study in order to know more. Undeserving people study in order to be more known.
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
John Buchan
People say that God created mankind after his image. This means that man created God after his image.
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Oscar Wilde
People are more than just the way they look.
Madeleine L'Engle
If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!
Philippe Kahn
We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
Judd Rose
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
Terry Pratchett
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
James D. Watson
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Mark Haddon
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
Neil Gaiman
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
Sara Paddison
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
Karl Lagerfeld
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
Orson Scott Card
