- Food
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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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
- Enough People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
- Forcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
- Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't make people respond.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020