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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A friend is, as it were, a second self.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bill Clinton A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
    U.S. News & World Report, Volume 136, Issues 20-23, 2004
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Carole Bouquet A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Eric Hoffer A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ching Ning Chu Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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