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Herbert Hoover was not “undistinguished pe [rson] serving without distinction in this not-very-important job.”

Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis I 2009

How can someone have heart problems, diabetes, several amputations, bladder cancer, and worse, be a lifelong Cubs fan, and still be the cheeriest pe rson you've ever met?

Ken Levine: Ron Santo Ken Levine 2010

M. O'BRIEN: All right, C.rson Kressley, these are manufactured by J.C. Penney.

CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006 2006

As fr th rson ur opinz r not much apresh, perhaps it has sumthng 2 do w ur ASSershuns nd insults such as:

Harajuku fashion 2005

After graduation from McPh.rson College in Kansas, he earned his M.A. degree from the University of Kansas and a Ph. D from the University of Minnesota.

Staats Named Again To Truman Scholarship Foundation ITY National Archives 1996

For a woman as deprived of affection as she, it was like chaining a starving: rson in sight of a gourmet banquet and deny ing him the feast.

Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983

F. Olivarez, who, on the representation of P. Ydalgo, as a person of a jealous, turbulent, and dangerous disposition, had been excluded from the mission to the Assinaïs, being then at the court of the Viceroy, saw with an evil eye the P.rson who had settled F. Ydalgo in that mission, and resolved to be avenged on him for the vexation caused by that disappointment.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

It is fair to infer, that Kit C.rson had but few friends at court, though it cannot for one moment be supposed that his name was not well known at Washington, when for five long years he had been the right-hand man of John C. Fremont in his explorations.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

It is fair to infer, that Kit C.rson had but few friends at court, though it cannot for one moment be supposed that his name was not well known at Washington, when for five long years he had been the right-hand man of John C. Fremont in his explorations.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson Peters, DeWitt C 1858

It's true that all else being equal a pe rson can often raise his income by raising his work rate, but it's completely backward to suggest that extraordinary feats of effort are the way individuals or countries get to the top of the ladder.

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