- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020