You can’t manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.
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BRYANT MCGILL Those who don’t know how to love others, how can they deserve love for themselves?
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MARK HAMILL Education can so easily unseat one’s confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.
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TRISH MERCER I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no mat...
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JUSTIN BERRY Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.
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NOAM CHOMSKY There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they k...
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DOROTHY HEIGHT We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manip...
DOROTHY HEIGHT People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves...
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WALTER ISAACSON You can’t really know yourself until you discover how corrupt you are.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows th...
DAVID CRYSTAL A person who can’t feel good for others, as such, often advocates to the people not to think too m...
ANUJ SOMANY Hold onto who loves and honor you.
Not everyone will know how to.
Some souls don't even kn...
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GAUTAM GAMBHIR Mario is not a criminal. How many criminals do you know who turn themselves in?
RANDALL UPSHAW Usually, people who ask 'do you know who I am?' don't have a clue themselves.
CHRISTINA ENGELA I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
FLEA The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected....
C.G. JUNG I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon...
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JOHN IRVING Trust those you think you can before you trust those you know you can’t.
VIKRANT PARSAI You can never escape who you are, never truly anonymise yourself. Even if you never speak to anyone,...
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RICHARD DAWKINS Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.
CHRIS ROCK Having emotional respect for yourself, stops others from using logical or technical reasons to manip...
IONIA IRELAND They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentmen...
PIETRO ARETINO They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentme...
PIETRO ARETINO Mankind throughout history usually governed by few, who don't know how to govern themselves
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK If idiots can’t think for themselves, then what is a movement of idiots?
A herd followi...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS It is sad to see people squandering money and know you can’t help them.
VIKRANT PARSAI Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matt...
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY It's true that people change in time. You gain knowledge from experience, learn how to handle situat...
EMILY PSUJEK Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dolla...
RICHARD HATCH The people who would like to manipulate and use you won't tell you your blind spots. They may plan t...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Every teacher at Mercer [Middle School] told me how fast he was,
ERIC OLSEN In most cases, people will tell you that you can't do it simply because that's how they think of the...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as pr...
DIANE RAVITCH Good to know in times of war you can’t bluff for shit.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Successful people are people who know how to fight, they are people who can fight for success and wi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the po...
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BETTY DEFAZIO Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry...
HELEN OYEYEMI Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
BARBARA COOK And the thing about love," Wally said to Angel, "is that you can’t force anyone. It’s natural to...
JOHN IRVING A person who doesn’t know how to accept others attitude are those people who doesn’t know how to...
JOSEPH BULURAN If you can manipulate words, you can manipulate the world.
ADAM MUTH You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for the...
MELINA MARCHETTA Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of th...
MITCH ALBOM Be careful who you support in your causes.
There are those who manipulate the good intentions of oth...
DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE Situations do not make people victims, people allow themselves to be victimized because each moment ...
CASSIO DE NOVA' I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who...
MERYL STREEP It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable ...
S. I. HAYAKAWA You have to let these people think they're discovering the acts for themselves by word of mouth.
ALEXANDER MAIR Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity...
ADAM GRANT Those who know how to think need no teachers.
MAHATMA GANDHI Then the sessions will get a little more challenging. Until then, it wouldn't be fair for us to expl...
DAVID HUDSON You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.
ROBIN S. SHARMA If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
PELE Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
BARRY BONDS We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or...
ERICH FROMM I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to c...
RANI MUKERJI Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you...
LEWIS CARROLL There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTEN You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know...
TERRY PRATCHETT “You can’t do what You ONLY never tried to do.”
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FERROL SAMS I certainly wasn't interested in inserting my own point of view. The questions themselves are intere...
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ORSON SCOTT CARD Playing victim to situations you can walk away from is disrespectful to people who face positions wh...
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You can’t be the best
you can be unless you know
who you r...
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