Confucius Quotes, People Quotes, Excellence Quotes

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

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He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

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People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

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We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

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I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Heart Quotes , People Quotes

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

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

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Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

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If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

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I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

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Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

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