- Me
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020