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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
unions study economic
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. Anatoly Chubais
unions company european-union
A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union. Tim Harford
unions humans susceptible
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. Tony Kushner
unions ends soviet-union
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. Steve Earle
unions oppression antagonism
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many. Eugene Jarecki
unions west east
Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves. George Washington
unions association advantage
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau. Fredrik Bajer
unions common individual
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings. Franz Kafka
unions economics accepting
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. Jacques Delors
sake more-money not-interested
I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. Kevin Whately
sake verbs destination
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object. Jonathan Raban
sake language
I have never designed a language for its own sake. Niklaus Wirth
sake needs clarity
Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers. Kenny Smith
sake love-and-responsibility
Freedom exists for the sake of love. Pope John Paul II
sake
We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves. Shunryu Suzuki
sake done nudity
It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake. Lara Pulver
sake should
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own. Thomas Aquinas
sake should profit
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. Paolo Bacigalupi