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Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy

What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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)


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"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

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

Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer

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)

People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov

Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz

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

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin

Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh

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

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- 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

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

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.

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

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

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

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- 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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

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

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

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

People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

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 who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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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