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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 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
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
important today energy
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is Richard P. Feynman
important west moral
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition Richard Rorty
important modern modernism
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Wallace Stevens
important storytelling important-things
Storytelling is the important thing. Vincent Kartheiser
important want forget
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. Warren Buffett
important development steps
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business. Wang Jianlin
important asking growing
If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself. Wayne Dyer
important problem
Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.
important purpose affair
There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!
dignity independence living quite within
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means. Calvin Coolidge
dignity calm relative
To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity. William Davis
dignity anachronism
Dignity is an anachronism. Ellen Glasgow
dignity given left people trained
These people are not being left to be victims. They are being helped, trained and given back their dignity and freedom, Rowan Williams
dignity taught watch
I want the whole world to watch it. I thought it taught so many things about dignity and respect. Julie Morris
dignity terrorism contempt
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. Kjell Magne Bondevik
dignity crosses testimony
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. R. C. Sproul
dignity position
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. Publilius Syrus
dignity states united
soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress. Dennis Hastert