"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"

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"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults, Merit

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"Give light and people will find the way."

Ella Baker, American Activist

People, Light, Will

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Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

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"I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day."

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"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"

"Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself."

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"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it."

Life, Living, Practice

"In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures."

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"Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up."

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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."

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

"Give light and people will find the way."

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

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

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"I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day."

"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"

"Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself."

"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it."

"In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures."

"Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up."

"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."

"Death is no different whined at than withstood."

"They say eyes clear with age."

"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere."