Quotes 781 till 800 of 1083.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
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The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.
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The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
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 man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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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 misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
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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 most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941) -
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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