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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
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Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
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