#person

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#any #birds #bound #description #employing

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty. ↗

— John Boehner

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I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general. ↗

— Serena Williams

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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ↗

— George Eliot

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I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person. ↗

— Jay Kay

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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