Quotes 641 till 660 of 939.
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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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.
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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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) -
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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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.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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