"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things."
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"Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people."
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"The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism."
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"Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations."
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"Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self."
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"Self-awareness includes awareness of your body."
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"Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun."
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"Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions."
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"In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves."
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"The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all."
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"Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable."
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"A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws."
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"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by."
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"All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space and everything we know as matter but now think to be mechanical."
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"Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic."
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"I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred."
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"Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life."
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"The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol."
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"The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious."
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"If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself."
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