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I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
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 world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
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.
- Peter Ustinov
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
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
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
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
"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
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
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
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
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
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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