- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.
- Nov 07, 2020
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists to take power. A war erupted, killing between 100,000 to 200,000 people, depending on which estimates are to be believed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
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- Nov 07, 2020