"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."

John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman

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"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."

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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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"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

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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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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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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