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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) -
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
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