Quotes with first-person

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  • Aristotle Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry Winkler A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
    Henry Winkler
    American actor, comedian and director
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    +26
  • Walter Benjamin The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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    +18
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person hears only what they understand.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Thurgood Marshall A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Dickens A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Walter Cronkite I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • W. H. Auden ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Helen Rowland ''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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