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Quotes about people

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

—Henry James

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People protect what they love.

—Jacques Yves Cousteau

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It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

—Tom Lehrer

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

—Hermann Hesse

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There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

—Tom Robbins

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

—Samuel Johnson

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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

—William Feather

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

—William Gaddis

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I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.

—Sarra Manning in Guitar Girl

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Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn.

—Danielle Steel in The Gift

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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too.

—Lemony Snicket in The Blank Book

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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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