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"It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break."
"People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies."
"Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain."
"I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people."
"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."
"Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person."
"No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor."
"The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success."
"Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most people do not actively use their brains. They passively let their feelings and thoughts control their lives. They don't invent new ways to use their brains, either, settling instead for the same routine and repetitive thoughts every day. But if you master all four roles, you create your super brain. When you are the active observer of your feelings and thoughts, you become the user of your brain. Your super brain then serves you, not vice versa."
"There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
"People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me."
"If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time."
"By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost."
"Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people."
"From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun."
"People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other."
"You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself."
"You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food."
"Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them ."
"Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions."
