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Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 1724.

  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Antoine Rivarol To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Albert Einstein To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bill Bailey Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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  • Antonio Machado Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
    Antonio Machado
    Spanish writer and poet (1875 - 1939)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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