Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Robert Southey Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Nelson Algren Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Albert Einstein Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Anthony Trollope Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ben Vereen Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • William Blake No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Viktor Korchnoi No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
    Viktor Korchnoi
    Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Source: Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
    Source: Van Paassen interview (1936)
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • John Stuart Mill No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bruce Babbitt No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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