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May you find great value in these Plumbing quotes and sayings.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
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People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
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
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
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
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
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
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
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