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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
tactics-and-strategy tactics incentives
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. Carlos Ghosn
tactics failing canyons
I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position, Bob Corker
tactics way different
You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach. Drew Barrymore
tactics
We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy, Matthew Dowd
tactics logistics
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics Napoleon Bonaparte
tactics strategy worst
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. George S. Patton
tactics would-be revolutionary
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . Christopher Hitchens
tactics impossible terrorism
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
tactics sides usual
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. Iain Banks
satire hated shows
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor
satire humour enjoy
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. Dario Fo
satire pornography humans
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. Angela Carter
satire offence
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. Jonathan Swift
satire dunces
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
satire
This has a lot of satire in it. Katherine Hough
satire audience ifs
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. Gore Vidal
satire beats
Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon. Chris Rock
satire ill satirist
Satirists do expose their own ill nature. Isaac Watts