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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

– Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

– Buddha

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.

– Robert C. Murphy

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

– Theodore Roszak

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

– George Mason

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people’s beliefs!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

– Heraclitus

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

– Eric Hoffer

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

– John Henry Newman

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

– George Orwell

To police is not to conquer, to police is to remind people there are rules that if followed benefit all.

– Christopher A. McDonald

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

– Kahlil Gibran

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

– Nancy Friday

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! (24 December 1886)

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors.

– Tommy Boy

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

– James F. Byrnes

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

– Author Unknown

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

– Maurice Setter

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