If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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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
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
Thomas Jefferson
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
Sir George Savile
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North Whitehead
Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Dale Carnegie
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
William Cobbett
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
Adelle Davis
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
Jean Paul Richter
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
In the emergency department, we have seen increased incidence of respiratory and flu-like symptoms ... but those persons don't always require hospitalization.
Francine Francis
Tennis is an international sport. It's a challenge getting to know each person's culture and learning how to motivate each player. Our diversity adds a different dimension or level, and that can that can be positive.
Jill Breslin
In these interviews, you get a feel for some of a person's traits, but you don't really get to know them in about 15 minutes. Now, I'm going to pick them apart and get to know them a lot better, more on a friend level.
Paul Gordon
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
John Pearson
On the average, two persons per day use the service to Denver, ... We'd like to see four people per flight.
Jeff Anderson
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun
Human beings are complicated, yet from our experience of working with hundreds of thousands of people, we've learned that most or even all of the average person's neuroses and hang-ups disappear when they start giving and serving others.
Robert White
If you pick the right story and it relates to that person's life, that story is with them forever.
Terry Paulson
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
P.t. Barnum
You're putting poison in a person's body, no matter how controlled. We would like to think there's more hope for an alcoholic than to just give them measured amounts of alcohol.
John Mohan
The program is called 'Miracles on the Mountainside,' and truly you do see miracles. A person's mindset can change so much from the first day of the clinic to the last.
Tom Mccarthy
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther
They're great kids and I feel fortunate to have been able to coach them. Not only are they good basketball players, they're great kids and they deserve everything that they've gotten. They all had different roles on the team but no one person's role was more important than the others.
Blaine Lopez
Lactose intolerance is very prevalent in persons of color. As a physician, I see people who are dealing with conditions related to their inability to digest lactose. They're led to believe they need to include dairy for health benefits. That is not true.
Milton Mills
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
We have started implementing the recommendations. It is still early days but this could have a significant financial implication on those persons now occupying the lands.
Brian Reidl
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
Francis Herbert Bradley
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Viktor Frankl
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making.
Alan Greenspan
We know what a gun and bullet does to a person's body, but we have no idea what a stun gun does.
Sen. Gary Siplin
In cases where the right people are paired, each person's power is increased by the alliance. The whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Jerry Greenberg
But a person's a fool if they think you can take a serious punt on when that exactly will happen.
Tony Alexander
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell
Knowing a person's HIV subtype is important for the management of the infection because the disease can progress more rapidly in those infected with subtype D … than in those with other subtypes.
Oliver Laeyendecker
Tiger meant nothing derogatory to any person or persons and apologizes for any offence caused.
Mark Steinberg
Calls to this tip line should be limited to fraud activity and corruption by businesses or persons engaged in purported contract fraud, procurement or purchasing fraud, and/or fraud of federally funded programs.
Chris Swecker
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
There is no definition of terrorism; and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
Kumi Naidoo
KBR has many global operations where ads ... are placed to ensure the company maintains current information on persons seeking employment with the company.
Wendy Hall
Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
Emo Phillips
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
What I saw left behind ... I saw kind notes of wishing well to the persons who were coming in from several senior staff members to other people.
Mark Lindsay
The high-tech business is considered a young person's game. But in high tech there's a reverse correlation; experience means you're not up to date.
David Greenberg
Hopefully, personal injury lawyers will now focus their attention on the person or persons that actually caused the damage instead of going after people and businesses just because they have the ability to pay more than the other guy.
Dave Jensen
Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
Frank Barron
If you get a message from someone you think you know, generally it's because that person's computer has been compromised.
Ron O'brien
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournier
They are both persons of great stature and people who the environmental community has respected for a long time.
Bill Terry
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
Anthelme Brillat Savarin
We learned two things from Katrina, ... One, when government orders an evacuation, it must provide a means for all persons to evacuate and two, you have to provide a shelter with an adequate means to maintain order, hygiene, food and most of all, dignity.
John Flint
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
William Somerset Maugham
A person's activity level is a better predictor of weight gain and loss. In other words, for those wishing to lose weight, changing your diet may not be enough.
Judy Cameron
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.
John Wanamaker
Downer did not mention the two persons but in an overall context of the nine Australians.
Desra Percaya
Historically we've seen an increase in the number of persons applying to be naturalized anytime immigration reform is being discussed nationally. We saw it in the 1990s, and we are seeing it now.
Bill Strassberger
The refugees and displaced persons may vote back where they came from in their original municipalities from which hundreds of thousands were expelled through ethnic cleansing. It's a moral dimension to the peace process.
Robert Frowick
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
If a person's life is in danger they have a right to protect themselves. He may have felt it was.
Roxanne Walker
Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time.
Robert Half
A person is someone's totality. If your brain stem is alive and kicking, you are alive and kicking. It's because God thinks of us, irrespective of our awareness, that we are persons.
Nigel Cameron
Every 60 to 90 days a person's natural lash falls out. The extended lashes are very sturdy and do not fall off on their own, touch-ups are needed as long as the natural lash holds.
Nancy Griffith
Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl Menninger, Dr.
WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their committment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H. L. Mencken
The damages are really the big issue. Are you just poking around, checking your e-mail, or are you doing it on a regular basis and affecting this person's bandwidth?
Robert Hale
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Will Cuppy
There could be someone a mile away with HIV and she can't leave the house because of that. Someone will be there to go take the medication to the person's house, sit with them and talk to them.
Cheryl Brown
The victim saw a group. He has stated there were approximately 10 persons, all young males, who approached. One from that group was armed with a handgun.
Mike Healy
It wasn't so much one person's fault in the first half. We were just in the wrong defense.
Sheila Green Gerding
I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!
Sasha Azevedo
As we become full persons, our knack for "right actions" and good judgment blossoms.
Marsha Sinetar
At least 11 more persons died overnight, taking the toll to 675.
Anoop Singh
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Charles Simmons
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
Akio Morita
I certainly will be looking to continue the path which has been made by my predecessors, especially Minister Farley . . . . I certainly look forward to working with all persons attached to the ministry to ensure the work is carried forward in the most professional way.
Anthony Wood
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Shannon Fife
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley
I learned a long time ago that no one can change another person's behavior, but we can give them the tools, resources, and understanding to change their own behavior.
Chet Bialicki
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
Having persons living in or near the downtown core is a good thing. Ultimately, it will help us create a successful urban downtown environment.
Michael Delk
For a full examination of the truth, you ought to be able to take in the context of a person's past behavior to explain current behavior, ... Among the most egregious crimes are sex offenses against children.
David Morse
I do not think any person's telephone conversations should be monitored. Everyone should have the right to communicate without fear.
Randall Harris
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
John Walker Lindh
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We urge all persons to read and base their investment decision only on the preliminary prospectus, dated May 21, 2001, and the final prospectus dated the date hereof.
Kraft Foods
It's all his money, and he's on the investment committee. If a person's making a gift of that size, he can stipulate what he wants it in.
Mike Holder
Because our task is not to outnumber the Methodists but to win the world-a world in which every day there are more lost persons than the day before.
William Hull
Our main contact person's e-mail has been full of responses from people.
Andy Zirkle
The majority of the persons arrested driving drunk have an alcohol problem.
David Rosenbloom
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
James Allen
Would enjoy the company of persons at High Point University.
Todd Burke
It seems that already 15,000 persons have been displaced as a result of the construction of the wall. This new generation of displaced persons creates a new category of Palestinian refugees.
John Dugard
Numbered squares will be drawn on the football field, and if the cow does his business in the lucky person's square, he wins $1,000.
Nancy Long
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walker
We are currently speaking to three persons of interest, as well as following up on leads in the area of the scene of the crime.
Richard Carey
It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.
Damian Breaux
But now that person's skiing down a hill because of things you did for them. You get to see them smile. It's really a wonderful thing.
Tom Mccarthy
Ensures that only CIT-trained officers respond to those persons.
Sally Graham
My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.
John Rocker
Our study provides compelling evidence that cancers hidden beneath the skin can be detected simply by [dogs] examining the odors of a person's breath.
Michael Mcculloch
We will not tolerate the FDA's decision to approve the destruction of innocent human persons through chemical abortion.
Judie Brown
It's not a pleasant thing, to see a young person's life snuffed out. Driving the van, I see a lot of people - a lot of people that I know sometimes - and you realize how many different families this affects.
Skip Mcdonald
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
We are recommending that ill persons stay in their rooms.
Marni Storey
The reason behind a person's conversion is between him and God. No one knows what is in the heart. So when a person declares he is a Muslim, we have to accept.
Datuk Mohd Nakhaie Ahmad
I don't think anybody can pass judgment because for me, one of the lessons I've really learnt is that I can never really judge another person until you have walked in that person's shoes.
Michelle Leslie
I like the little things I can do to make a person's day.
Melissa Hill
But against this it is thus opposed: the Will of God is the Nature or the Essence of God, because for God the "to be" is not one thing, "to will" the other; and for that reason, just as there is one Essence of Three Persons, so also one Will. Therefore if God by nature is God, He is also by will God; and if the Word of God by nature is the Son of God, He is also by will the Son of God.
Peter Lombard
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
Ambrose Bierce
ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
Ambrose Bierce
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Francis Herbert Bradley
We don't see a lot of these in the Police Department. But we have to take it seriously because it's one person's allegation that it was an intentional act.
Mike Hanson
It's a bodily search. It's an invasive search. In the United States of America, the government can't search a person's body without the permission of the court.
Michael Steinberg
It will be a veritable who's who list of persons of influence in Creek County.
Clark Brewster
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
Margaret Chase Smith
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.
John Morley
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash
This school board administration will not stomach this kind of activity going on on our buses or schools. That person or persons involved in this incident this afternoon will face full criminal prosecution.
Bucky Burnsed
What we rely on a great deal is the person's demonstrated behaviors over time, based on people who know them and have worked with them.
John Rogers
I guess football's more important than a person's life to them.
Maurice Clarett
It took 4 1/2 months, but through some dogged police work, the tremendous efforts by our crimes against persons (detectives), and some patrol officers, an arrest was made, and we made a commitment to carry this investigation through to the end.
Gerry Whitman
One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton
We can't say this person committed a crime, but we can say this person's DNA was found at the scene.
Lonnie Ginsberg
At this time, force is not being used to evacuate those persons who are already in the city.
Sherry Landry
Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
My impression is there haven't been many complaints filed either in employment or public accommodations, but that isn't a very old law. Maybe a lot of persons aren't aware that sexual orientation is afforded protected standing.
Terry Johnson
Sometimes persons are even unwilling to lodge complaints to the CAC.
Dorothy Campbell
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
Deborah Tannen
So far, 82 persons have been arrested and detained. Their offences include arson, grievous assault on census officials and unlawful possession of firearms.
Haz Iwendi
The great majority of these persons appear to have been arrested for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly or expressing their political opinion.
Brian Martin
It's all about a person's individual tastes.
Terry Izzo
It's going to be a kind of Hallmark greeting card production, where we celebrate all the special occasions in a person's life, from a bar mitzvah to a 75th anniversary.
Dominic Missimi
All the gravestones offered were dates, something to serve as mere parentheses around what really happened in a person's life.
Roy Macgregor
In a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water or on the dry land, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.
Friedrich Max Muller
Part of the problem is, we don't have any reports of missing persons that would match the description of this guy. The clothing doesn't match anybody.
Dwayne Baird
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
Its illegal to possess another persons card.
Ken Hammond
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Roger Sherman
Part of the group has arrived, we're expecting five persons in all.
Helder Muteia
The exhibits and attractions help introduce people to important persons and times in American history and are fascinating glimpses of the past.
Mary Hendron
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at.
John Evelyn
April is National Kite Month, and we as advocates can think of no better symbol than that of a kite to represent Independent Living for persons with disabilities.
Betty Johnson
The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
Rachel Field
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
Ambrose Bierce
We have had quite a few persons signing up and expressing interest, as we have our system connected to the Internet.
Bill Bailey
One person's trend is another person's fluctuation.
Richard Alley
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Max Ehrman
If a student or anyone ever came into a classroom and it was disruptive, it's always the faculty person's right to ask that person to leave and if they wouldn't leave to call the police and ask the police to remove the person.
Lane Crothers
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
Henry Flynt
The only time I left was to vote, give blood, or go to the doctor. This way of life forced you to go slow, to seek a deeper peace, to see every person's goodness.
Patricia Perry
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
All you have to do is open up a little bit and then you'll be experiencing a part of that person's soul. It's just there -- in the presence of a beautiful painting, a creation, something created by someone else. This is insight into not who they are physically, but who they are on this other plane, so, what makes it magic, always, is to hear music performed live.
Bill Conti
The most important thing is to understand the dying persons and ease their pain.
Zhang Danuo
It's almost impossible to run a business like that with everything on one person's shoulders.
Brent Martin
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan
We were mad at first, but we realized we have to pull together. We're not focusing on it being this person or that person's fault. A mistake was made and now we have to put it behind us.
Bart Eddins
Overall, it makes it possible to learn a lot more about the fate of individuals and to learn a lot more about the Holocaust itself ? concentration camps, deportations, slave-enforced labor and displaced persons.
Paul Shapiro
At the time of a person's death, much of their savings, business assets or farm assets have already been subjected to federal, state and local tax.
Wayne Allard
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
Charlotte Bunch
Followed by probation or community control for the remainder of the person's natural life and subject to a system of active electronic monitoring.
Jessica Lunsford
A spark in the person's personality and style.
Jim Demers
It should never be used to take one person's property and give it to another private person.
Paul Zimmerman
This is really hampering the economic recovery of the city. We've got every person's real estate in the city of New Orleans tied up in a knot.
Arthur Sterbcow
I think everyone feels the same. Your property is your property and no one should try to take it from you and the law should be on that persons side not the one committing the incident or the crime.
Mary Sanders
It was shot down without provocation and without any warning. Sixteen persons on board who were absolutely innocent were killed.
Mushahid Hussain
This is a lazy person's idea of hunting. They drive right up to the animal.
Priscilla Feral
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
William Hogarth
The larger, the more far-flung, and the more diverse a person's network, the more important e-mail is. You can't make phone calls or personal visits to all your friends very often, but you can 'cc' them regularly with a couple of keystrokes. That turns out to be very important.
Jeffrey Boase
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Hypatia of Alexandria
This is not one person's award. This is a reflection of all the coaches, management and players who made it possible.
Joe Augustine
It depicts how a person is in a cocoon state like the butterfly during his or her time of grieving, and after a length of time that is necessary for that person's grief, they come out of the grieving time a new and different person. Death causes life as it was before with the individual to completely end, and the survivor must decide to find a new normal or a new beginning or a new state.
Carole Tarr
Not to be personally heard adds to our concern about the fairness of the whole process. Where a person's life is at stake, there ought to be some minimum elements of due process.
Michael Satris
(These persons) didn't even know they had a son.
Jason Griggs
Find the Lord, find the saints of the times, but also find the not canonized, simple persons who are really in the heart of the Church.
Joseph Ratzinger
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H. L. Mencken
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