Quotes with themselves

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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Beth Henley And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bill Condon And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Auberon Herbert And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Bernard Werber Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ernest Renan As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Jean Baudrillard At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bob Schieffer At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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