"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

People, Suffering, Taste

"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

People, Excellence

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

People, Country

"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

People, Quarrel

"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

People, Man, World

"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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"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

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"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."

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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."

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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."

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

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"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."

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"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."

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