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«Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do.»

«The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell»

«Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations»

«The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.»

«Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.»

«The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.»

«The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to»

«Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing God?s work.»

«The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past»

«Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.»