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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
faces
We may see some of the same faces back this season. Ben Cherington
faces your-face autobiography
Often your face is your autobiography Will Durant
faces done kind
I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing. Salma Hayek
faces arguing paint
Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there? Ronnie Wood
faces different lit
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything? William Golding
faces keen time
I'm keen to see some new faces and think it's time for that to happen, David McKay
faces mask
Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces. Khalil Gibran
faces force nonviolence
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces. Mahatma Gandhi
faces prophet historian
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. Friedrich Schiller
principles teach formulas
Teach principles not formulas. Richard P. Feynman
principles easy
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. Winston Churchill
principles today sake
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. Wendell Berry
principles youth fixed
Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth. Ellen G. White
principles resurrection this-life
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. Joseph Smith, Jr.
principles social form
Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. Katharine Anthony
principles building architect
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Frank Lloyd Wright
principles legislation mutual
All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession. Henry Clay
principles unattractive merit
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive. John Maynard Keynes