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Persons Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he…
- This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics,…
- A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is…
- A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past,…
- People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more…
- Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep…
- People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning…
- Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
- If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for…
- What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as…
- It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves,…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash