Plato Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

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When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

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I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

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It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.

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In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , People Quotes , Lazy Quotes

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , People Quotes , Weakness Quotes

You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

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We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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