"Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage."
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"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
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"A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting."
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
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"The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't."
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"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."
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"You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?"
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"I was blinded by being a romantic person."
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"When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us."
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"A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment."
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"A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon."
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"The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile."
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"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
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"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."
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"Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person."
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"Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse."
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"Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society."
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"Let the other person save face."
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"The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting."
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"To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are."
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