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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

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3

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

G. K. Chesterton

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Saki

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5

I am a deeply superficial person.

Andy Warhol

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6

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Horace

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7

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

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8

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained -- then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

Walter Lippmann

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Edmund Burke

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10

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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11

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Robert A. Heinlein

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12

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Emma Goldman

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13

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

John Ruskin

People
14

People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you.

People
15

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

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16

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Horace

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17

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

People
18

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Ovid

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19

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Walt Whitman

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The people are to be taken in small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

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22

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Mao Zedong

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23

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Leigh Hunt

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24

The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.

Voltaire

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25

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

Blaise Pascal

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26

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.

François de La Rochefoucauld

People
27

There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.

People
28

There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.

People
29

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

John Steinbeck

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30

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

Kurt Vonnegut

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We are the people our parents warned us about.

People
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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

John F. Kennedy

People

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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.

There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.

There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.