The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
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Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
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Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering.
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
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A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
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I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
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People look at ordinary stuff all day long, so why not make a picture look extraordinary, and give them something new to look at.
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Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.
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