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  • Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
        Alexis Carrel   Best?
  • The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''
        Cicero   Best?
  • Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.
        Doug Larson   Best?
  • Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
        Unknown   Best?
  • What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
        Unknown   Best?
  • People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
        Unknown   Best?
  • "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
        Paul Fix   Best?
  • I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
        J. D. Salinger   Best?
  • Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
        Joseph Heller   Best?
  • People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
        Audrey Hepburn   Best?
  • Lots of people lose themselves in love, it's no shame, they write songs about it. The hitch is you can't stay lost, sooner or later you have to get back to yourself. If you can't then love becomes your master and you're just it's dog.
        Marti Noxon   Best?
  • Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.
        Sue Grafton   Best?
  • Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  • Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
        Sir Thomas More   Best?
  • Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  • There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
        Quentin Tarantino   Best?
  • Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and for the world.
        Julius Schwartz   Best?
  • The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
        James Thurber   Best?
  • The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
        George Bush Sr.   Best?
  • Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
        Margaret Cho   Best?
  • Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
        Maurice Setter   Best?
  • I finally realized that being a role model doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me -- they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves.
        Lucy Lawless   Best?
  • Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
        Agnes de Mille   Best?

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