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Letter "P" » People
«When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.»
«When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing»
«What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it»
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Inventor, Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Experience,
Government,
History,
Learning,
People,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
acted, deduce, deduced
«When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.»
Author: George Pataki
| About:
Government,
People,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
accepts, no longer, responsibility
«When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.»
«When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.»
Author: Langston Hughes
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
care for, cry for, peoples, straighten, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up
«What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Belief,
Conviction,
Danger,
Evil,
Extremes,
Injustice,
People
| Keywords:
extreme, extremist, extremists, intolerant, intolerant of, objectionable, opponents
«When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Frustration,
Life,
People
| Keywords:
deep-seated, demand, demands, ordinarily, resentment, seated
«When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
People
| Keywords:
And logic, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, creatures, dealing, emotion, motivated, motivates, motivating, prejudice, prejudiced, pride, prides, Pride and, take pride, vanity
«When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.»
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