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942 quotesGreat people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Ideas
Tobias S. Gibson
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The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
Motivation
Ken Gilbert
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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Life and Living
Henry Giles
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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Submission
Nikki Giovanni
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Christians and Christianity
Nikki Giovanni
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Government
William E. Gladstone
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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Obesity
Jackie Gleason
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The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Listening
Germain G. Glien
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Public
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The people rate strength before everything.
Strength
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Absence
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Desire
Oliver Goldsmith
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
Example
Oliver Goldsmith
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Praise
Samuel Goldwyn
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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Democracy
Mikhail Gorbachev
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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
Retirement
Virginia Graham
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When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Hiring
R. H. Grant
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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.
Cities and City Life
Robert Gurney
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Belief
Gutzkow
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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Family
Alex Haley
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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Names
Thomas C. Haliburton
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Edward F. Halifax
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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
Extremes and Extremists
Bishop Hall
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun