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self order should
Charles Caleb Colton Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
selfish heart character
Charles Dickens Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
Charles Stross I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
self trouble needed
Charles Spurgeon What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
self grace trials
Charles Spurgeon When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
self white black
Charles Spurgeon Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
self-esteem thinking self
Alanis Morissette I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
self our-society tasks
Alan Watts Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.
justice long people
Chinua Achebe As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
justice democracy essentials
Edward Gibbon But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.
justice criminals flaws
Ben Whishaw The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
justice-for-all liberty united-states
Benazir Bhutto When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
justice social-justice social
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Freedom is incomplete without social justice.
justice suffering social-justice
Athol Fugard We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
justice publicity eternity
Arnold Bennett The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
justice causes beam
William Shakespeare Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
justice equal
William Shakespeare Justice always whirls in equal measure.
tests firsts calling
Arnold Bennett The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
tests rings universe
C. S. Lewis The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
tests
Agnes Macphail We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
tests acid failing
Bill Watterson Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
tests faces indifference
Edwin Land The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
tests doe answers
Bjarne Stroustrup How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
tests firsts beats
David Guetta Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.
tests failing explanation
David Deutsch Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
tests majority failing
David Deutsch The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.