Quotes with self-defence

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  • E. B. White The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Sterling The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
    Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Dorothea Brande There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Baba Kalyani There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bernard Malamud There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • John Gay There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Shinn There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
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