#persons

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. ↗

— Ruth First

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The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers. ↗

— Peter Fraser

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Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#manageable #more #persons #silence #simply

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

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All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. ↗

— Hypatia

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

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