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People are stupid;
by Terry Goodkind

People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind

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The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind

In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie