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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
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.
- Buttered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
- Environmental Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
- Nov 07, 2020
Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not 100 players better than me, so it doesn't matter what people think.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020