"There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size."

People, Malice, Pleasure

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"There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

People, Problems, Want

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

People, Being

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

Roger McGough, British Poet

People, Poems

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

Roger McGough, British Poet

People, School

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

People, Man

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

John Steinbeck, American Author

People, Help, Hurt, Poor

"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

People, Career

"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity."

Pete Sampras, American Athlete

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"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

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"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

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"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

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"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity."

"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."