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Person Quotes (page 42)

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives Paul Farmer
Michel Foucault quote: "I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of..."
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem. Michel Foucault
Alan Moore quote: "There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person...."
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. Alan Moore
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood. Philip K. Dick
I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. Jane Austen
Dave Barry quote: "A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a..."
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. Dave Barry
I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything. Mari Evans
An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. Brian Tracy
Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had been marked by 'incredible neglect,' he told some of his officers. 'It's almost like you're on a hunger strike and you're on the 50th day, and all of a sudden you're going to try to feed this person. Well, they're not going to eat very quickly. I mean, every organ in the body is collapsing. The under-resourcing of Afghanistan... Bob Woodward
Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it. Lao Tzu
Graham Greene quote: "I have never understood why people who can swallow the..."
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. Robert Musil
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. Alice Munro
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music. Larry Mullen

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