Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Antisthenes As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Buddha As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Ben Harper As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Denis Waitley As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bodhidharma As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Calamity Jane As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bill Dedman As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Cameron Bright As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Middleton As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Gore Vidal As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Benny Goodman As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung As the animus is partial to argument, he can best be seen at work in disputes where both parties know they are right. Men can argue in a very womanish way, too, when they are anima - possessed and have thus been transformed into the animus of their own anima.
    Source: Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Peter Gabriel As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
    Peter Gabriel
    British musician, composer and songwriter (born 1950) (1950 - )
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  • C. L. R. James As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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