"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

People, Circumstances, Want, World

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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

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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."

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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."

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

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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

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"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."

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"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."

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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."

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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

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"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."

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