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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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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
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Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
Source: Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
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