Person

Person

A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.

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Famous quotes containing the word person:

    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “If a person does wrong, he alone must take the blame.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)