#persons

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

#better #else #i #like #persons

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

#choice #constituted #maintain #matter #obligations

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

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#give #government #law #persons #power

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! ↗

— John Pearson

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All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

#christian #civil #civil rights #denomination #extended

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#across #between #both #cement #charged

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country. ↗

— William Windham

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