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Letter "P" » People
«Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.»
«Everyone is better looking when they are smiling»
«Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still look at making a mistake as embarrassing, wrong, an act bordering on sin. If you?re making mistakes, it means you?re doing new things, taking risks, stretching yourself. You?re growing, learning. And isn't the journey, the experience, not the destination, what life is all about?»
«Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.»
«How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.»
Author: Jack Nicklaus
(Golfer)
| About:
Habit,
People,
Youth
| Keywords:
Bad Habits, correcting, get over
«Human beings have used their incredible abilities to develop a staggering array of limiting beliefs, justifications and excuses for every occasion. What a waste!»
«Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
People,
World
| Keywords:
composed, keep on, Nothing to say, The Other Half
«Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
People
| Keywords:
branches, even as, faiths, tree trunk, trunk, trunks
«Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
groups, groups of people, group of people, inconsistent, remedy, worlds
«Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.»
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