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self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self grace denial
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. Richard Baxter
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
self long age
Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now. Russell Hoban
self ideas people
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
cultures literacy music origins poetry remembers tribal word
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch
culture world urban
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Salman Rushdie
culture protect norm
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. Robert M. Pirsig
culture tissues centre
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Roland Barthes
culture levels grassroots
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. Robin McKinley
culture sometimes wonder
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? Rebecca Solnit
culture photographer common
I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture. Sam Abell
culture threat
Change is no threat to culture. Wade Davis
culture ends
The end of culture is right living W. Somerset Maugham
virtue economics budgets
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. Ronald Reagan
virtue
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue Fyodor Dostoyevsky
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness. David Brooks
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. William Shakespeare
virtue democratic candidates
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. Bernard Meltzer
virtue crime mayhem
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue Edgar Rice Burroughs
virtue providence
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest. Benjamin Franklin
virtue punctuality strict
Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. Juvenal