#persons

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#artists #come #commission #having #hundreds

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#apprehensive #been #carry #certain #homeless

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#evil #persons #society #solitude #than

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#keep #leave #love #persons #promises

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#doing #every #faculties #freedom #full

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#acquaintance #admitted #allowed #although #anyone

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#been #before #faintest #had #i

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens