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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.
Klaus Fuchs

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Augustus Hare

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Allen Tate

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thomas Secker

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
Billy Sunday

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
Lafcadio Hearn

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Millicent Fawcett

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Walter Martin

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley

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