Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
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H. G. BISSINGER If everyone knows their roles in the organisation, do their best in their role, then success is defi...
ZENG HAN JUN Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your wo...
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JENNIFER SHAW WOLF What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.
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MARIA SEMPLE People are afraid of the thoughts that are outside their normal boundaries
ADRIAN SANDVAER People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
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GREG GINN Other people influence your life through their actions and thoughts.
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ALAN ALDA There are people in the world who deserve paradise for their thoughts and hell for their deeds.
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J. G. BALLARD I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easi...
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BILLY GARDELL Even in times of today, when one does not feel the need to go out of one's way for someone else, the...
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MARY ELLEN MARK Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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OSCAR WILDE Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
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OSCAR WILDE Punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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OSCAR WILDE Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very m...
OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is an optimist with experience
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OSCAR WILDE Those whom the gods love grow young.
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OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum...
OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class.
OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money.
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OSCAR WILDE A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'...
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OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
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OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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