Quotes with self-important

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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Bill Buford The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bryan Magee The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Francis H. Bradley The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Voltaire The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Smiles The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ellen Key The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • James A. Froude The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • John Updike The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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