"The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you."
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"It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become."
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"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."
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"A person's life persuades better than his word."
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"Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person."
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"He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons."
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"If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again."
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"One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others."
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"The person that angers you most, teaches you best"
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"Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment."
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"The child becomes a person through work."
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"I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it."
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"The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula."
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"To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip."
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"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
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"We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us."
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"Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway."
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"The Person is a bubble on Time's sea."
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"The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing."
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"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."
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