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  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
  • I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
  • The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
  • Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
  • You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
  • Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
  • Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Beware of the person of one book.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Richard Bach Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Memory changes as a person matures.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • James Patterson An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
    James Patterson
    American writer (1932 - 1972)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming A bad system will beat a good person every time.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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