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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
examination fiction freak
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. Flannery O'Connor
examination dignity instinct
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. C. S. Lewis
groups satanist
I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists? Richelle Mead
groups economic command
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. Reinhold Niebuhr
groups endeavour camps
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
groups use scumbags
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. John Oliver
groups auditions saying-thank-you
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition. John Lennon
groups high maintain middle people remember school skills time
A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will. Troy Diels
groups imagine records work
There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields
groups oldest since
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning. Ta-Nehisi Coates