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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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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.
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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.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Liner notes bij album Bringing It All Back Home -
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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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.
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis -
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 192
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