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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
enemy focus leadership people pitch solid terrific trying worst
He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous. Jason Portz
enemy armor addresses
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it. William Shenstone
enemy annoying stills
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect. William Saroyan
enemy melancholy industry
Industry is the enemy of melancholy William F. Buckley, Jr.
enemy relief affection
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. Samuel Johnson
enemy quality meals
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. Samuel Richardson
enemy mountain kindred
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. William Cowper
enemy
This is no time to be making new enemies. Voltaire
enemy innocence
The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time. William Butler Yeats
righteousness eternal
The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness. Matthew Arnold