- 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
- Frog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- Quit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020