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"When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'"
"It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person."
"Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays."
"Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of."
"I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment."
"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
"Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"I'm not a happy person when I'm working."
"I am a huge Leonard Cohen person."
"All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle."
"No documents, no person."
"If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta."
"Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?"
"I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career."
"I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious."
"I am a capable person, and I can handle anything that comes my way"
"Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear."
"Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content."
"I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that."
