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"Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural."
"There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots."
"All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity."
"Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines."
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
"Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling."
"Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap."
"There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm."
"People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else."
"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
"According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules."
"When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are."
"People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy."
"Let some people get rich first."
"A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick."
"Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created."
"These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people's hearts."
"I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again."
"Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did."
