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Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
A people that values its privileges
above its principles
soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
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
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
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
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
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
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"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
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
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 know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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)
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
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- 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
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
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
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
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
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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