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Personality Quotes (page 112)

Wendell Berry quote: "A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a..."
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Wendell Berry
William S. Burroughs quote: "I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something..."
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go. William S. Burroughs
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. Viktor E. Frankl
From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs cash. Sophie Tucker
Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning. Stephen Jay Gould
George Eliot quote: "the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of..."
the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage. George Eliot
the map they are using does not indicate the village of Orce, how very inconsiderate on the part of the cartographers, I’ll bet they didn’t forget to indicate their own hometowns, in future they should remember how vexing it is for someone to check out his birthplace on a map only to find a blank space, this has given rise to the gravest of problems for those trying to establish personal and national identities. Jose Saramago
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom. Erich Fromm
This woman was so ugly and stupid, she probably never should have been born. And yet Wait was the second person to have married her. Kurt Vonnegut
...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves. Terry Prachett
Phil McGraw quote: "When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving..."
When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power. Phil McGraw
Albert Einstein quote: "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. Albert Einstein
Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve of the ancient instinct of astonishment. This is proved by the fact that when we are very young children we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. Boys like romantic tales;... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Laurence J. Peter quote: "You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good,..."
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. Laurence J. Peter
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal... Mark Twain

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