![Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.](/assets/img/quote-photos/freedom-should-not-be-conceived-negatively-as-exemption-from-social-influences.jpg)
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What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else. Billy Blanks
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RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. Ambrose Bierce
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It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level. Anthony Kiedis
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Alice Morse Earle
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control Albert Bandura
exercise self influence
Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.
exercise order giving
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you. Albert J. Nock
exercise giving competition
The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.
exercise hands citizens
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.
self political soul
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. Adlai Stevenson
self law arbitrary
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self bears unhappiness
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. Dorothea Brande
self people leader
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self worry decision
Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder. Dale Carnegie
self grain-of-salt would-be
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article. Daniel Starch
self people identity
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself. Daniel Radcliffe
self intellectual world
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? Dan Gelber