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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
views people trying
When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view. Rob Zombie
views arms sometimes
Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.
views common-sense religion
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd. Richard P. Feynman
views different definitions
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term. Richard Whately
views toes novelists
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. Truman Capote
views people black
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. Trisha Goddard
views orlando solitary
Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. Virginia Woolf
views personality acting
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked. Viola Spolin
views important ends
We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view. William Westmoreland
law support written
I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble. Carolyn Brown
law looks ought rather sees thinks wants
He looks at the law and he sees what he wants to see, and he prosecutes what he thinks ought to be prosecuted, rather than what it is.
law bars aliens
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. Richard Perle
law problem protection
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
lawyer legalism gods-will
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us. Tullian Tchividjian
law different needs
You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws. Trevor Phillips
law clubs want
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble. Sara Sheridan
law world may
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next. Sarah Orne Jewett
law bears bulls
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them. Warren Buffett