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456 quotesTo appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Hell
Will Carleton
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Reason
Thomas Carlyle
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Focus
Thomas Carlyle
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Potential
Thomas Carlyle
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Critics and Criticism
Thomas Carlyle
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Potential
Thomas Carlyle
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Leaders and Leadership
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Wisdom
Thomas Carlyle
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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Delegation
Andrew Carnegie
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Life and Living
Johnny Carson
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Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
Life and Living
Violet Bonham Carter
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Anger
Carlos Castaneda
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Independence
Willa Cather
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It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
Listening
Dick Cavett
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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
Love
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Honor
Miguel De Cervantes
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Fashion
Lord Chesterfield
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritans
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Birth
Deepak Chopra
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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Learning
Winston Churchill
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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Will and Will Power
Marcus T. Cicero
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Mistakes
Marcus T. Cicero
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No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
Consistency
Marcus T. Cicero
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Approval
Claudius Claudianus
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun