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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
Nationalities and Nationalism
Voltaire

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Coward and Cowardice
Voltaire

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
Purpose
Denis Waitley

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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Loneliness
Lew Wallace

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Choice
Horace Walpole

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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Gossip
Barbara Walters

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
Time and Time Management
John Wanamaker

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Arts and Artists
Andy Warhol

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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Virtue
George Washington

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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
Past
John Welch

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
Insensitivity
Orson Welles

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
Enthusiasm
John Wesley

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I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
Motivation
John Wesley

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Cheerfulness
Edwin P. Whipple

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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
Conversation
James Mcneill Whistler

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Agreement
Elwyn Brooks White

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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Class
Walt Whitman

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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
Perseverance
Bob Wickman

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If you can't trust people, who can you trust?
Trust
Hohn Widdiconbe

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
Sensitivity
Oscar Wilde

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Charm
Oscar Wilde

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy
Oscar Wilde

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
Flowers
Oscar Wilde

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Politicians and Politics
Oscar Wilde

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
People, Other
Oscar Wilde

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