Quotes 541 till 560 of 739.
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The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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The only defensible war is a war of defense.
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The only discipline that last is self discipline.
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country's commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) -
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
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