"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."

People, Causes

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"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."

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"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."

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"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

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"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

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"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"

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"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

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"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."

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"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

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"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."

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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

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