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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Konstantin Stanislavski
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Joseph Priestley
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No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
Hilary Putnam
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Ernest Bramah
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A. P. Herbert
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
John Stuart Mill
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
Maxwell Maltz
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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Anne Lamott
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There is no person who is not dangerous for some one.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimée
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The Slavs are to work for us. Insofar as we do not need them, they may die. Therefore, compulsory vaccination and German health service are superfluous. The fertility of the Slavs is undesirable. They may use contraceptives or practice abortion, the more the better. Education is dangerous. It is enough if they can count up to one hundred. At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.
Martin Bormann
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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry Blackmun
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.
David Hume
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Lady Bird Johnson
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When a person's down in the world, I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett
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