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Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson · Clay Aiken, Teen People · Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People · Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185. · Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue · Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven · Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance · Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people · Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin

...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion. – Alexander Hamilton
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. – Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. – John Holt
1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you. – Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. – Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. – Jerry Seinfeld
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. – Herbert V. Prochnow
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. – Lyndon B. Johnson
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. – Fred Allen
A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in that country are developed, only if their level of culture is raised and only if an infinite importance is given to the science and to the knowledge! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people. – Charles W. Tobey
A fool judges people by the presents they give him. – Chinese Proverb
A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. – Lao-Tzu
A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. – Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew' – Robert Charles Benchley
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. – Herbert V. Prochnow
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. – William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. – Edward R. Murrow
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Gagehot
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. – John Updike
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. – H.L. Mencken

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