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"Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self."
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"What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self."
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"In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?"
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"A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist."
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"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
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"Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self."
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"Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance."
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"The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self."
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"To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead."
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"The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence ."
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"Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire."
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"To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him."
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"I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self."
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"What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)"
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"The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn."
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"We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring."
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"I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self."
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"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
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"A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away."
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