Bodhidharma Quotes, Wise Quotes, People Quotes

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.

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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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I wish that people could love more.

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It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.

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Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

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Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

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The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.

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The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

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My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

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People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

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It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

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