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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. — Ezra Taft Benson
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his… — Alfred Adler
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. — Milton Berle
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since… — Alfred Adler
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to… — Mortimer Adler
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of… — Halle Berry
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is… — Mortimer Adler
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. — Annie Besant
Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral… — Annie Besant
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. — Jeff Bezos
I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways. — Jeff Bezos
I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason.… — Mayim Bialik
I'm a pretty quiet person. — Mayim Bialik
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his… — Theodor Adorno
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes… — Ambrose Bierce
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. — Joe Biden

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