Quotes 221 till 240 of 754.
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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 in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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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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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
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I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
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