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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
wants
He is very, very competitive and wants to win. Glen Taylor
wants
He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.
wants
He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.
want linear theme
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear. Richard Holbrooke
want opinion said
I want your opinion.ʺ ʺThat,ʺ Adrian said, ʺis not something I hear a lot.ʺ Richelle Mead
want sydney happens
Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.
wanted
Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.
want care disaster
Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.
want care last-sacrifice
Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.
degrees easily few hot literally wine
It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.
degrees cynicism optimist
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. Sarah McLachlan
degrees shy found
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. Caroline Knapp
degrees where-you-are where-you-are-in-life
You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead. Ted Koppel
degrees lovers ready
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. Elizabeth Gaskell
degrees let-me
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree. Jonathan Haidt
degrees certain piety
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. Jonathan Edwards
degrees modern brown
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. Emma Watson
degrees internet constant
So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference. John Hodgman