Person

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Person is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Andrzej Person, Polish politician

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Person is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andrzej Person (born 1951), Polish politician

Chad Person (born 1978), American contemporary artist

Charles Person (1942–2025), African-American civil rights activist

Chuck Person (born 1964), National Basketball Association (NBA) assistant coach and former player

Curtis S. Person Jr. (1934–2020), American politician from Tennessee

Houston Person (born 1934), American jazz saxophonist

Jay Person (born 2000), American football player

Leroy Person (1907–1985), American sculptor, Outsider Artist

Luis Sérgio Person (1936–1976), Brazilian filmmaker

Marina Person (born 1969), Brazilian actress, filmmaker and former MTV VJ

Mike Person (born 1988), American professional football player

Owen Person (1888–1976), American politician from Nebraska

Ricky Person Jr. (born 1999), American football player

Robert Person (born 1969), former Major League Baseball pitcher

Ruth J. Person, American university administrator

Seymour H. Person (1879–1957), American politician from Michigan

Thomas Person (1733–1800), American politician

Waverly Person (1926–2022), American seismologist

Wesley Person (born 1971), former NBA player

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Notable quotes

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
— Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See (1990)
“All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill — today!”
— Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek: The Original Series, sn 1, ep. 23: "A Taste of Armageddon" (February 23, 1967), story by Robert Hamner, teleplay by Gene L. Coon and Robert Hamner
“I do not want the voice of the people shut out.”
— Huey Long, remarks in the U.S. Senate, May 16, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10,297
“Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
— Bertrand Russell, "The Science to Save Us from Science", in The New York Times (19 March 1950)
“Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), "The Sage, the Weak, and the Magnificent", p. 95
“In the last analysis, my fellow countrymen, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.”
— Woodrow Wilson, address, Columbus, Ohio, September 4, 1919. The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Albert Shaw, vol. 2, p. 728 (1924).

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