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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both fe...

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The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...

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That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her...

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Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike...

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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding att...

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all thin...

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interest...

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One person's car is another person's scenery.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...

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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is depend...

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I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is al...

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I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's ju...

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Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to det...

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Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and ...

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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than...

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can...

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Every educated person is a future enemy.

But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I do...

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It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wa...

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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a ...

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The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the fam...

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I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. ...

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To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the ...

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We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a f...

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Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries of...

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Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understandin...

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In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual ...

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I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

There's no such thing as an independent person.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of pers...

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As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and re...

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You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've bee...

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a ...

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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so ...

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication betw...

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My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind...

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I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I...

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...

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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also fre...

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...

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No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my...

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When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper edu...

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It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and ther...

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All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our l...

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When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never...

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In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...

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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to...

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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is goo...

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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in th...

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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting poi...

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