Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, People Quotes

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

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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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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

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Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.

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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

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You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

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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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People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

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There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

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A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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