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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Reason, Makes

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Happen, Wish, Others

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin

Work, Time, Why

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

Nothing, Everything, Enough

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby

Yourself, Forgive, Bitter

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Power, Society

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Times, Duty

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Whole, Sure

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

Kindness, Deserve, Loving

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Society, Influence, Clothes

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

Best, Mean, Free

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

Work, Nice, Live

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

Beauty, Time, Strength

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Rest, Astonish, Gratify

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership, Time, Today

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope, Important, Trying

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln

Government, Save, Allow

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln

Act, Concert, Generally

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Help, Everything

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Future, Past, Enjoy

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa

Love, Work, Jesus

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

Work, Character, Hard

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Confidence, Through, Hatred

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Used, Quality, Excellence

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Government, Made, Moral

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen

Long, Taken, Annoy

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Person, Honest, Screwed

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