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1016 quotesInequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
Prejudice
William Dean Howells
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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Service
Elbert Hubbard
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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Experts
Elbert Hubbard
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Pride
Elbert Hubbard
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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
Theory
Ruth Hubbard
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Approval
Raymond Hull
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Government
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Greatness
Leigh Hunt
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Sympathy
Leigh Hunt
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Thoughts and Thinking
Aldous Huxley
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Self-improvement
Aldous Huxley
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Thoughts and Thinking
Aldous Huxley
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All limits are self imposed.
Impossibility
Icarus
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Dean William R. Inge
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Society
Dean William R. Inge
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Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
Leaders and Leadership
Italian Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
Welfare
Italian Proverb
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Business
Randall Jacobs
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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Experience
Mick Jagger
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James
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The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
Introspection
Henry James
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
Self-image
William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
Failure
William James
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
Choice
William James
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun