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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James Audubon

Life, Success, Family

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller

Love, Good, Future

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.
Robert Mueller

Planning, Attack, Various

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley

Great, Power, Knowledge

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater

Failure, Two, After

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frederic Bastiat

Freedom, Long, Person

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau

Life, Good, Equality

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nature, Him, Same

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

Forever, Repent

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Protagoras

Truth, Together, Making

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Jerzy Kosinski

Number, Hold, Forum

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

True, Drunk, Become

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Others, Sense, Sensible

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

Beautiful, Since, Bible

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
William Cobbett

Give, Create, Labor

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile

Three, Break, Laws

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley

Interest, Shock, Cease

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer

Life, Health, Society

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
Adam Clarke

Life, Few, Themselves

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
Adam Clarke

God, Remember, Word

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.
Joseph Butler

Love, Words, Remember

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
Dorothy Day

Men, Strength, Society

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
Zebulon Pike

Nature, Political, American

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
Marion Jones

Trust, Truly, Realized

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
Georg Simmel

Mind, Between, Personal

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Auberon Herbert

Others, Themselves, Rights

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.
Joschka Fischer

Vote, Charge, Punish

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Health, Alone, Care

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Gilbert Murray

Life, Happiness, Liberty

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
John Webster

Good, Mean, Hell

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