#persons

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

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Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society. ↗

— William Falconer

#crowded #expose #fewer #follow #health

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#between #cause #citizen #clad #come

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ↗

— Lord Byron

#glad #know #known #many #persons

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#case #commit #conduct #crime #doctrine

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

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#persons

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#assurance #been #burden #care #care costs

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