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self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
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.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
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
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. Charles Stross
tortured
a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud. Nathan Barankin
torture
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. Carson McCullers
torture ifs
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. Brian Eno
torture
I don't torture myself. Daniel Day-Lewis
torture last-words
Now it is nothing but torture. Sigmund Freud
tortured
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. Jeff Tweedy
tortured
And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.
torture
Torture doesn't work. John McCain
torture policy exception
Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy. William J. Clinton
thirsty pretzels
These pretzels are making me thirsty! Jerry Seinfeld
thirst feels investigators
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. Immanuel Kant