Quotes with single-person

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • E. B. White Our idea of a cultured person is a person who doesn't want to live in a community of cultured persons.
    Every day is saturday
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Marcel Proust Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alvin Toffler Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bob Keeshan Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Anne Frank 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
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Ann Patchett Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Mark Twain Patriot : the person who can shout the loudest without knowing where he is crying about .
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bow Wow People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Robert Collier People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Caroline B. Cooney People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Candice Bergen People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Graham Greene People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bob Marley People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Isadora Duncan Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Greg LeMond Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
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