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Personal Tabu: A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition, that allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence of cultural or religious dictums.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Personifiers unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity.
person of no account: [University of California at Santa Cruz] n.
Used when referring to a person with no {network address}, frequently to forestall confusion....
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished...
Persons disagreeing with your facts are always emotional and employ faulty reasoning.
-- Murphy's Fourteenth Law...
Persons who would be placed outside the pale of society with contempt are not those who would be placed there by another culture.
-- Ruth Benedic...
Persuasion rules OK - just this once?
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiv, Line 251...
PertweeDos 3.0: (A)bort (R)etry (V)enusian karate
Perversity is the spice of life.

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