Persons Quotes
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
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Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
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I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
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Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.
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A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.
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Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
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Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits
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A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
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I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
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Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.
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The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
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For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
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It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?
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There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.
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A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
