Quotes 661 till 680 of 893.
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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 one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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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 Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.
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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 physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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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 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.
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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 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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The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
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