- 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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020