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Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
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
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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