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  • Bernard Berenson Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Alexander Herzen Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Louis Menand Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
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  • Bhagavad Gita Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Lord George Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • M'Ckuen Roger Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
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  • Maxwell Maltz Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • John Morley Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Brene Brown Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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