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Ian Stevenson Psychiatrist, Researcher
Self

"Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire."

Self Suicide Suicidal
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Self

"It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control."

Men Self Grief
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Self

"Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire."

Self Desire Achievement
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Larry King Television Host
Self

"Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain."

Jobs Self Journalism
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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
Self

"But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything."

People Self Differences
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Ilchi Lee Author
Self

"We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable of watching all of these things. Those who practice self-cultivation find that mind; they live with it and they die with it."

Eye Self Practice
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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Self

"After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity."

Self Spiritual Personality
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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Self

"Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment."

Men Self Knowledge
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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer
Self

"Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego"

People Thinking Self
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Self

"Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support."

Self Winning Sacrifice
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Neil Oliver Television Presenter, Historian
Self

"My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen."

Self Father Luck
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Lauren Oliver Author
Self

"For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried."

People Self Sadness
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
Self

"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation."

Men Self Doe
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Geoff Dyer Author
Self

"When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen."

Writing Self Lonely
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