"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

People, Suffering, Taste

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

People, Excellence

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

People, Country

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

People, Quarrel

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin, English Writer

People, Man, World

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

People, Belief, Common sense, End

"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

Jennifer O'Neill, American Actress

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

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"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."

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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

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"Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

"We never live, we are always in the expectation of living."

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."

"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation."