Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1220.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
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What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
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What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
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When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
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