- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important for us as a group of Navy SEALs, to make sure that the message that we send to the country is that we're ready to serve any commander in chief, the elected head of the armed forces, that the people of the United States elect. That is our mission, that's our duty, as Navy SEALs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
- Global
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
- Primarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020