A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.
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"Whoops! It's Christmas", published in The Abbott Christmas Book (1960) by Herbert W. LuthinHalford E. Luccock
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The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.
Charles Sanders Peirce
If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.
Ralph Bunche
"One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself."
"What a strange idea!" Mordion said.Diana Wynne Jones
"One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself."
"What a strange idea!" Mordion said.Diana Wynne Jones
I agree with Freydis that, for various reasons, nobody ever, quite, knew Manuel well.
The hero of "The Silver Stallion" is, thus, no person, but an idea, — an idea presented at the moment of its conception... I mean, of course, the idea that Manuel, who was yesterday the physical Redeemer of Poictesme, will by and by return as his people's spiritual Redeemer.James Branch Cabell
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