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People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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
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
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
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 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
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
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
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
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
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
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
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 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
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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 say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
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
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
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
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
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
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
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
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