Quotes with single-person

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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Shirley Maclaine A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Seneca A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bruce Lipton A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Don Marquis A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bob Dylan A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
    Liner notes bij album Bringing It All Back Home
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • David Lloyd George A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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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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