#persons

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. ↗

— Robert Rainy

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It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#friendship #good #habitual #happiness #inclination

It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it. ↗

— David Rudisha

#about #anything #being #case #comes

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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