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- The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other,…
- We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to…
- We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
- I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative…
- It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you…
- All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It…
- There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms…
- The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
- Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
- People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
- Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
- It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings…
- People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.
- The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we…
- The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.
- For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
- Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
- Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing…
- The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
- That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with…
- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
- Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same…
- People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are…
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a…
- People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle