#persons

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#god #name #named #part #particular

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#another #future #good #love #persons

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit. ↗

— Andy Lau

#bit #cinema #could #him #hong

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. ↗

— James Madison

#instituted #objects #persons #property #protection

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#democratic #equal #free #free society #harmony

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#apt #charity #complete #concerned #consequence

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#clothes #cook #four #just #machine

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#census #females #first #free #head