Persons Quotes
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The person seeing perfection is the Master.
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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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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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Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.
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A healthy person can accept criticism.
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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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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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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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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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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
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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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A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
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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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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
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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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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
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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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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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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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Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits
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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.
