A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.
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If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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John: Hey. Aeryn: A greeting I shall never understand. John: It's kind of all-purpose. Lets the other person decide what they want to talk about. Aeryn: What if they don't want to talk? John: Then they say hey back. Aeryn: Hey. John: Well now the first person that doesn't want to talk can be trumped if the other person realizes that they need to. Hey. Aeryn: I hate being ambushed.
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If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question it's a bureaucracy. If the first person can answer your question, it's a miracle.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself.
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