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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

William Morris Hunt

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. That's technology. TV is like any other kind of tool. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one-way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with.

I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust – good Christians and good Communists.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know:

Share everything.
Play Fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

William Howard Taft

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.