Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, People Quotes

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

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We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

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Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

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The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

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Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.

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That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

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What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

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Hopefully I'm not a grumpy old guy sitting in the corner, yelling at people and demanding things.

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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.

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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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