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Great people talk about ideas; average people talk about things; small people talk about other people

By 2 Caballero Criado Costeño on August 25, 2010


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I'd be the average person talking about the horrendous typography of that sign. Really, making this claim, I'm a small person talking about other people.

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2 LGD who hasn't voted, says

And successful people talk about actions?

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4 Bananas in the Falkland who hasn't voted, says

oh god

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2 LGD who hasn't voted, says

Do gods count as being ideas, things or people?

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4 Bananas in the Falkland who hasn't voted, says

hello and welcome to the marx debate on why stalin failed to implement the concept of marxism. Has anybpdy died yet.

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No_score Bell Biv Beavis who hasn't voted, says

<3 u bananas

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2 Caballero Criado Costeño who disagreed, says

I'm taking it that some folks didn't like this claim. I thought it'd be good for a vote-down.

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1 Leopold II of Belgium who disagreed, says

I'm on board

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3 DeWe2 who hasn't voted, says

I'm on bored. It doesn't look as if she'll ever come.

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1 kriebly who hasn't voted, says

Not if you're on here she won't.

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No_score protruce who hasn't voted, says

A quote from Eleanor Roosevelt-a woman who knew what she was talking about?

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2 Caballero Criado Costeño who disagreed, says

Eleanor's version went a bit differently, didn't it?

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1 Leopold II of Belgium who disagreed, says

It's always about people.

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2 Caballero Criado Costeño who disagreed, says

That's correct. I have no idea if hers is the original though.

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2 Caballero Criado Costeño who disagreed, says

Well, the version often attributed to Eleanor is about minds to be specific but surely the minds of people. This is under the disputed section of her page on Wikiquote.

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