Quotes with self-governed

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  • Ann Oakley If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ramana Maharshi If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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  • Bill Hybels If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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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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  • 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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  • Confucius In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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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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  • Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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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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