"The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

William James, American Philosopher

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

People, Hollywood, Writing

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

People, Experience, Truth, Life, Inspirational

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

People, Books, Future, Reading

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

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"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

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"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

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"There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep."

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"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."

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"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."

"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

"There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep."

"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."

"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."