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A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
The problem in defense is
how far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men,
in all lands, everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted
the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
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
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
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 Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- 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
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
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
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
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
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
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
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
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
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
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
"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
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
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 living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
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.
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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