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He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
Orson Scott Card
I always think they're rather charming-looking, the Burmese. They have such splendid bodies! Just think what sights you'd see in England if people went about half naked as they do here!
George Orwell
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
Christopher Hitchens
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
G. K. Chesterton
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
Ovid
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Hector Hugh Munro
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Patty Smith
Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
Enid Starkie
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius
People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you.
Source Unknown
There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.
And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.
Terry Pratchett
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.
John Green
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? Natural death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.
It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a public.
George Eliot