Adam Gopnik Quotes, People Quotes, World Quotes

If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , People Quotes , Causes Quotes

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , People Quotes , Soul Quotes

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Art Quotes , People Quotes

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Evil Quotes

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Two Quotes , People Quotes

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , People Quotes , Half Quotes

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

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By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , People Quotes , Kingdoms Quotes

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , People Quotes , Weakness Quotes

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , People Quotes , Advice Quotes

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

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Tags : Afrojack Quotes , Reality Quotes , People Quotes

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Simple Quotes , People Quotes

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Age Quotes

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going.

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Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , People Quotes , Fascism Quotes

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Order Quotes , People Quotes