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Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path. — Ban Ki-moon
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of… — John James Audubon
Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons… — Annie Jacobsen
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons. — Tim Wise
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human… — Samuel Freeman Miller
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in… — Oliver Ellsworth
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as… — Roger B. Taney
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly… — Melville Fuller
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of… — Aristotle
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting,… — Aristotle
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. — Aristotle
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith… — Benjamin Cardozo
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions. — Vladimir Potanin
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. — Claude M. Bristol
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of… — Will Cuppy
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. — Anthony Powell
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. — John Webster
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. — Robert Frost
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. — Francis I

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