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Source: The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion

“Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.”

People Self Church Perception Conscious Folks Signals Self Conscious

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.”

Believe Two Important Self Roles Hero Discovery Universal Relation Self Discovery Transcendence Universal Truth

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.”

Self States Promise Empty Campaigns Barack Contradictory Wyoming

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“Every spoken word arouses our self-will.”

Self Literature Spoken Word Self Will

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.”

Want Self States Modern Arms Citizens Clinton Defense Barack France Germany Fascists Self Defense Poland American Society

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.”

Firsts Self Shows Masters Limitation Favourite

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.”

People Years Made Self Winning Nations Party Revolution Twenties Curse Self Respect Allies Incapable Boast Deprived Foreigners Pariahs

Author:Erich Ludendorff

“How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.”

Looks Self Evolution Symbols Progressive Referencing

Author:Sanjaya Malakar

“Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.”

Doe Self Nations Authority Determination Absolutes Abstract Self Determination Totalitarianism

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.”

Mean Self Certain Principles Gun Killing Conservative Mindset Defense Owners Nuts Sensibility Fanatics Self Defense Bedrock Gun Owners Conserving

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.”

“There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.”

“Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.”

Self Self Esteem Reader Newspapers Esteem Cards Magazines Meant To Be Articles Valentine Valentine Card

Author:Rex Murphy

“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

“For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.”

Humans Self Sacrifice Human Nature Strange Self Sacrifice

Author:Bolesław Prus

“What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.”

Wells May Self Illusion Notion Components Neurology

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.”

People Believe Long Self Seems Force Loses Accepting Issues Atheism Willing Absolutes Magazines Criticize Almighty Supporter Darwinism Biologist Tubs Rottweilers

Author:Steve Sailer

“Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.”

Self Feelings Pain Suffering Loss Pleasure Involved Gains Arise Granted Occupation Vague Pain And Pleasure

Author:Francisco Varela

“I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.”

Self Age Able Accepting Sufficient Forty Far Away Looking Forward Self Sufficient Being Old

Author:Stella Vine

“The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.”

Self Kids Teacher Pride Despair Messages Hatred Intention Coaches Righteousness Self Hatred Self Righteousness Best Intentions

Book:Sidney and Norman: A Tale of Two Pigs

Source: Sidney and Norman: A Tale of Two Pigs

“Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.”

Important Self Successful Self Confidence Ingredients Physicist

Author:Victor Frederick Weisskopf

“And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.”

Persons Self Left Black Common Brother Common Sense Self Respect Als Riding Ownership Landing Domes Black Person Shotguns Displeasure

Author:Jason Whitlock

“As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.”

People Thinking Self Problem Issues Clothes Self Worth Superficial Tackling

Author:Trinny Woodall

Firsts Self Government Might Democratic Unity Socialism Transition Bureaucracy Owing

Author:Salvador Allende

“Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.”

Self Running Young Promise Aging Psychological Landscape Our Time Indulgence Vegas Las Vegas Therapeutic Ethos Self Indulgence

Book:Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

Source: Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.”

Thinking Doe Self Individual Race Independent Genuine Thinker Steam Doubtful Self Education Enabling Retard Great Thinkers Rethinking Popular Education

Book:The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the common interest, to wield the power of brain and good right arm if need be for one's family, for the ordered community of life, for the state, for moral principles, humanity, and the common good.”

Ifs Needs Heart Self States Humanity Fighting Interest Community Common Brain Moral Principles Struggle Arms Morality Weapons Common Good Moral Principles Common Interests

Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton

“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

“Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.”

Self Levels Brain Impossible Normal Factors Self Control Willpower Upbringing

Book:Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

Source: Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

“There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.”

Want Self States Government Capitalism Confused Capitalist Persuasion Anarchism Anarchist Regulators

Book:What is Anarchism?: An Introduction

Source: What is Anarchism?: An Introduction

“It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.”

Ifs Men Self Dream Heaven Hell Self Love Deception Selfishness Gates Delicious Self Deception Offspring Gates Of Heaven

Book:Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies

Source: Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies

“Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.”

Years Self Courses Felt Seeing One Thing Conditions Terrible Conquer Deception Liberation Delusion Helpless Colleagues Lied Self Delusion

Book:Breakfast in the Ruins

Source: Breakfast in the Ruins

“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.”

Way Years Stills Self Faces Fall Sleep Consciousness Watches Five Wife Twenties Deeper My Wife Five Years Unconscious Fascinated Twenty Five Sleepers

Author:David Bottoms

“Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.”

World Looks Littles Self Eye Consciousness Brushes Self Consciousness

Author:Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

“What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.”

Persons Self Moments Sides Adventure Victim Glasses Contempt Outsiders Norm Arbitrary Alienation Sanctions Recognise Validity Precious Gifts

Author:Jamake Highwater

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

Ifs Trying Self Able Pain Past Grows Differences Fashion Mets Limits Disease Yoga Greed Caring Honestly Unconscious Making Love

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status”

Persons Self Female Males Destroying Geek Abiding Obsessive

Book:Lucky Wander Boy

Source: Lucky Wander Boy

“There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.”

Self Management Time Management Self Management

Book:Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time

Source: Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time

“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.”

Thinking World Needs Self Seems Action Past Wealth Brain Events Identity Fame Ordinary Concerned Aspect Connections Speed Conquest Truest Sleepy Crippled Instantaneous Speed Of Light

Author:Eben Alexander

“How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.”

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.”

“A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul”

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.”

People Writing Self States Hands Next United Steps United States Wonderful Independence Historical Irony Mars Evident Declaration Declaration Of Independence Next Steps Pissed Off Colonists

Author:Eric Idle

“There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.”

World Self Dies Poverty Rich Greater Slave Conviction Riches Self Respect Jail

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.”

People Mind Doe Self Facts Challenges Self Esteem Esteem Assumption Livelihood

Author:Daniel Kahneman

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