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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Children
Logan Pearsall Smith

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When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Challenges
Margaret Chase Smith

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Greatness
Sydney Smith

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Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Food and Eating
Socrates

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Wealth
Solon

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Government
Solon

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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Communism and Socialism
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Paranoia
Susan Sontag

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Music
John Philip Sousa

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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Possibilities
Steven Spielberg

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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Association
Philip Dormer Stanhope

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Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
People
Enid Starkie

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Communism and Socialism
Gertrude Stein

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Poverty and The Poor
Gloria Steinem

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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
Behavior
Benzel Sternan

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Progress
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
Embarrassment
Lynn Swann

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Humor
Jonathan Swift

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One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
Gratitude
Publilius Syrus

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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Systems
Thomas Szasz

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
Law and Lawyers
The Talmud

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People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Behavior
Fran Tarkenton

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Opinions
Booth Tarkington

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