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self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
our-society knows
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. Edwin Land
our-society resistance inquiry
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society? Bill Nye
our-society fantasy life-is
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. Billy Crudup
our-society moral compass
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. Dan Ariely
our-society facts poor
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. Barbara Ehrenreich
our-society spheres adults
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. Andrzej Wajda
our-society prevention reactions
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... Clay Shirky
our-society collapse precarious
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. Doris Lessing
our-society information depth
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. David Ogden Stiers
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks reader
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. Edward Hirsch
tasks illusion principal
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Arthur Schnitzler
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen
tasks may architecture
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
tasks
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. Michael Porter
tasks problem states
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. Anton Chekhov
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer