#persons

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#conversation #forum #hold #limited #limited number

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#construction #effective #entire #fact #in fact

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#also #arms #cease #defense #hostilities

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#makes #only #personality #persons #root

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#any #back #backward #bed #bend