Quotes with not-self

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  • Samuel Johnson It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Kahlil Gibran It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Antoine Rivarol It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Cosby It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Ernest Henley It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.
    Invictus
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Rod Serling It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
    Rod Serling
    American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator (1924 - 1975)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Jean Rostand It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anthony Robbins It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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