"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

People, Innovation, Posterity, Result

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"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

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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

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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

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You can stroke people with words."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Words

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Blind, Self

"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience."

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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

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"You cannot plan the future by the past."

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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."

"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."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"You can stroke people with words."

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."

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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."

"To innovate is not to reform."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"You cannot plan the future by the past."