"I'm a sucker for, like, an endearing man who's like standing in his authentic self."
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"Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people."
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"Self-love is a busy prompter."
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"All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare."
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"Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor."
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"Every man is of importance to himself."
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"Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed."
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"The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone."
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"Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging."
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"Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work."
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"I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know the difference. I thought that if you were gracious, that meant that you somehow were getting ahead of yourself. And I felt self-deprecation kept you balanced."
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"Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change."
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"I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!"
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"For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said."
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"Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit."
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"All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private."
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"Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes."
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"All education is self-discovery."
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"I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing."
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"I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good."
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