Quotes 321 till 340 of 697.
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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No laws, however liberal, will release us from our self-imposed taxes.
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No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
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