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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
armor body camera consider doubles fine front heat man million paid role shot stand standing star stars stunt wearing
I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them. Ben Stein
armor innocence children-innocence
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. Robert South
armor body deployed service sufficient
There is, obviously, sufficient body armor for every deployed service member.
armor remember
Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can. Brent Weeks
armor biggest middle mistakes putting
During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were ""just going down to the corner.
armor dead grass interest knights whose work
My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth. Jamie Wyeth
slavery hereafter
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Robert Dale Owen
slavery constitution worried
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change. Whoopi Goldberg
slavery cages slave
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. Mahatma Gandhi
slavery defeat teach
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. Juan Williams
slavery levels remember
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. Paul Mooney
slavery care want
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone? Mira Sorvino
slave good-things impression
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money. John D. Rockefeller
slave creatures creator
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. George MacDonald
slavery twins trouble
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert) Lucy Maud Montgomery