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There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
I desire so to conduct the affairs
of this administration that, if at the end...
I have lost every other friend on earth,
I shall at least have one friend left,
and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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