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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward -
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.
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Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
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Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Cosmos (1980) -
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123 -
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
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I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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