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"You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others."
"There are more copies than originals among people."
"People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is."
"The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."
"It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts."
"Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?"
"If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run"
"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."
"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."
"Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom."
"If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent."
"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
"To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it."
"What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful."
"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."
"When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships."
"When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people."
"America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact."
"You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies."
"The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society."
