Quotes with not-self

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  • Alexander Cockburn A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • George Gurdjieff A ''sin'' is something which is not necessary.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • George D. Prentice A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Lord George Byron A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Caine A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Ferdinand Foch A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Bobby Bowden A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Jack London A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Salman Rushdie A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • David Mitchell A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Abigail Van Buren A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • George Santayana A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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