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  • There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
        Orson Scott Card   Best?
  • People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash form point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all decide where the hell they wanted to be.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
        Julia Roberts   Best?
  • Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
        William Clayton   Best?
  • People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
        David H. Comins   Best?
  • The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
        Robert Fulghum   Best?
  • Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
        Emma Thompson   Best?
  • To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
        Buddha   Best?
  • The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.
        Despair.com   Best?
  • But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
        Hanif Kureishi   Best?
  • I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results. Every socialistic type of government where the State theoretically owns everything, and everybody does their little part to help the State, inevitably produces bad art, it produces social inertia, it produces really unhappy people, and it is more repressive than any other kind of government.
        Frank Zappa   Best?
  • Envy is what makes you, when an aquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, "Which one, Hades?
        Regina Barreca   Best?
  • It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Hell is other people.
        Jean-Paul Sartre   Best?
  • We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
        Robert Anthony   Best?
  • Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
        P. G. Wodehouse   Best?
  • The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want.
        Alice Walker   Best?
  • As was his language so was his life.
        Seneca   Best?
  • People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
        Hermann Hesse   Best?
  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
        A. J. Liebling   Best?
  • Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.
        Art Costa   Best?
  • Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?

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