Eugene J. Martin - People Quotes

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Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause.

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Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask why about anything is when they don't receive their paychecks.

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Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.

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People fight not because they disagree, but because they don't know they agree.

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People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.

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There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.

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Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.

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People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.

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It's past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.

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Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.

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The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we're not.

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Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can't make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.

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'It's a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.

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Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.

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Truth is so large OR people's minds are so small that they're only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.

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