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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
denial driven profit
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. Wally Lamb
denial knew start
I knew right away, and I was kind of in denial to start with, Rex Grossman
denial immediate medium quickly rule stock
Even with the denial of immediate plans, there are expectations of stock buyout in the medium term. If they completely rule this out, however, the stock will quickly fall. Tomas Taterka
denial bears sturdy
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials. Charles Caleb Colton
denial heritage my-family
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. Lisa Unger
denial might next pushing quote
I was in denial at that time. I read the quote the next day and I thought I might have been pushing a little bit. Mike Shanahan
denial modern term
was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial? Ian Mcewan
denial dies hope life
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. Charles Bradlaugh
aberration
The love of freedom is actually an aberration. Dennis Prager