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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
- Environmental Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
- Congregation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020