Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowing Quotes, People Quotes

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

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Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

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We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

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