- Suffering
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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
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.
- Biggest Obstacle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the policies they pursue, the answer is the people who call themselves progressive.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020