Quotes 261 till 280 of 773.
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If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
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If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
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If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
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In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
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In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
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In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
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In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
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