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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bo Bennett Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Horace Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alcee Hastings Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • B. D. Wong Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Burnie Burns Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Clark Moustakas Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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  • James Baldwin Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Kurt Cobain Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Ivan Stang We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
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  • Joseph Roux We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Bobby Scott We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Troward We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Boris Kodjoe We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • George Sheehan We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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