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    The concept of a person is logically prior to that of an individual consciousness. The concept of a person is not to be analysed as that of an animated body or an embodied anima.
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

    Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
    —Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)

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    With words and people and love you move at ease.
    —John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)

    Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)