"God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease."
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"We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path."
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"Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life."
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"Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind."
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"Self worth cannot be verfied by others"
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"There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven."
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"I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her."
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"I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self."
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"So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
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"Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self."
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"Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand."
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"Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril."
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"Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people."
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"A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them."
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"The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination."
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"Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself!"
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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations."
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"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is. It's all him and nothing else, inside."
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"There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
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"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."
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