Quotes 561 till 578 of 578.
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
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You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
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You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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In truth we talk only to ourselves, but sometimes we talk loud enough that others may hear us.
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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