Quotes with self-destroying

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  • Bell Hooks If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Salvatore Satta If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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  • Carl Bernstein 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.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • George Sheehan If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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  • Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill 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.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Keith 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.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bjork 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.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Robert Byrne In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Albert Bandura 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.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Emma Goldman 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.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Paul Klee 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.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Myriam Miedzian In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Cate Blanchett Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Aaron Copland Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • John Sterling Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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