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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
- Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
- I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
- Robert Bakker, paleontologist
- Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.
- American Heart Association Cookbook
- The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
- If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
- A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
- Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
- Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
- John Kord Lagemann
- If you believe everything you read, better not read.
- Japanese Proverb
- Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
- Marva Collins
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
- Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
- When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
- The Work of the Chariot
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
- Unknown
- The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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