Quotes with single-person

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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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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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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • James A. Froude A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A person's fate is their own temper.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Jean Paul A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Anna Held A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Blaise Pascal All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Plato An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Henry Ford An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Joseph Addison An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barack Obama And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Les Brown As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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