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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91 -
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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