Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions."
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Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success."
Emily Bronte
Poet, Novelist
"I will walk where my own nature would be leading."
Shel Silverstein
Poet, Songwriter, Author
"I can be someone's and still be my own."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind."
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"I speak only one language, and it is not my own."
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"Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life."
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"I have my own personal wish list."
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"I decided to accept as true my own thinking."
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"My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts"
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"I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength."
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"I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced."
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"I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility."
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"What I learned on my own I still remember"
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"If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client."
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"I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind."
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"I was the owner of my own darkness."
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"I'm my own psychologist."
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"For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual."
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"I want to own my own business because then I can be in control of everything."
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"I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life."
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"All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance"
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"I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening."
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"I want to pave my own path artistically."
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"I don't even have my own computer."
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