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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I'm more from Spain. That's how I grew up.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.
- Nov 07, 2020