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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Rowan D. Williams

Marriage, God, Different

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Good, Society, Person

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Together, Two

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Done, Using, Parties

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Find, Between

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman

Old, Behind, Fools

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace

Keep, Sure, Hear

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wish, Dangerous, Fault

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Good, Themselves

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson

Good, Government, Long

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Money, Selfish, Others

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

Ignorance, Beginning, Whether

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Lord Byron

Known, Celebrity, Glad

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin

Good, Great, Person

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber

Few, Heaven, Known

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Selfish, Give

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Paul Ryan

Successful, Together, Working

Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond Tutu

Person, Others, Recognizes

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo

Beauty, Else, Here

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Life, Men, Football

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett

Person, Situation, Ability

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

Bad, Die, Before

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison

Government, Rights, Protection

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart

Life, God, Person

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

Racism, Treat, Order

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois

Truth, Pure, Poison

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell

Trust, Shout, Cheering

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Alex Haley

Society, Racism, Learned

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