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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Opera
W. H. Auden

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Victory
St. Augustine

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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Advice
Ghose Aurobindo

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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Relationships
Joan Baez

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Pleasure
Walter Bagehot

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Death and Dying
Enid Bagnold

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People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.
God
Pearl Bailey

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Truth
James Baldwin

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People can cry much easier than they can change.
Change
James Baldwin

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Writers and Writing
James Baldwin

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Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?
Winners and Winning
Ivern Ball

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Action
Honore De Balzac

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
Memory
Ellen Barkin

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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Intentions
Natalie Clifford Barney

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Success
Bernard M. Baruch

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
Heart
Bernard M. Baruch

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I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything.
Doubt
Gerald Barzan

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You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
Elections
Gerald Barzan

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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Interest
Francis Beaumont

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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Punctuality
Samuel Beckett

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Danger
Henry Ward Beecher

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Music
Sir Max Beerbohm

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
Leaders and Leadership
Warren Bennis

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Death and Dying
Yogi Berra

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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.
Baseball
Yogi Berra

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun