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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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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
- Ignore
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
- Community
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- Humanity
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
- Literature
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
- Parents
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- Hungry
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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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