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“I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.”
“Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the work will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent...”
“People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.”
“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”
“People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.”
“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
“I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.”
“Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.”
“Which isnt, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.”
“Because that was the problem, really, wasnt it, with being human? You couldnt just be, couldnt just live and exist without dragging your feet through the mud. You had to communicate, congregate, co...”
“Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.”
“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”
“You can't always choose the people you work with, but you can choose to learn how to deal with them. They are all different." - Charles”
“Negative people offer no hope to the person who wants to pursue their goal. They are a hinder to positive thinking and plans for a brighter future.”
“Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.”
“Oh, Vasu. People always talk; you have to learn to ignore them.”
“She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.”
“He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.”
“Good people see past their own fucking lives.”
“For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.”
