"The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing."
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"A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
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"You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent."
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"We never love a person, but only qualities."
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"I'm happy; I'm a happy person."
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"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
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"You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes."
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"I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not."
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"The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind."
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"There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired."
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"You can always become the person you would have liked to be."
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"Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow."
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"Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion"
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"An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things."
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"A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ."
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"A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society."
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"Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender."
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"I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time."
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"I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers."
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"I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been."
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