Persons Quotes
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the…
— John Burroughs
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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
— Elizabeth Ashley
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Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her.…
— Charles Stanley
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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
— William James
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is…
— Alan Bennett
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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those…
— Aristotle
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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling…
— Carl Sagan
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The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant of…
— Joseph Henry
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I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
— Oscar Wilde
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If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change…
— Julianna Margulies
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We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person…
— Jane Addams
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A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in…
— Alicia Silverstone
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything,…
— Lenny Kravitz
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The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
— Robert South
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Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
— Robin Leach
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
— Seneca the Younger
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Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or…
— Paul Fussell
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