"Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries."
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"Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!"
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"Bones leaned back, studying me. I felt so self-conscious. If only I had a shield of makeup, some perfectly arranged hair... and oh yeah. Some panties."
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"People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends."
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"I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me."
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"I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone."
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"it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself."
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"We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!"
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"There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft."
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"Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress."
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"Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist."
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"Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?"
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"Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?"
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"Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression."
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"I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it."
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"Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect."
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"Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive."
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"It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap."
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"The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities."
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"Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action."
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