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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
logic cold evolution
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. David Quammen
logic ethics accomplished
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov
logic students reasonable
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. Deng Xiaoping
logical shoreline knows
The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Aristotle
logic tradition obsolete
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. Ed Parker
logic humans human-beings
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
logic appeals reason-and-logic
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Samuel Butler
logic enough reason
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
logic pleasure footsteps
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. Alexander Smith
made clear ifs
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken. Alan Greenspan
made angle
Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. Chris Bauer
made bigs
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth. Cary Grant
made print
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead. Charles Kuralt
made obvious reader
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. Aidan Chambers
made
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me. Bernie Mac
made should disposable
Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable. David Tudor
made ache
It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache. Deb Caletti
made
you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words. C. S. Lewis