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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anything
Competent
Incapable
Insecurity
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
Robert Anton Wilson
Coincidences
Consciousness
Explains
Infinite
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
Robert E. Howard
Environment
Even
Fantastic
Feeling
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley
Death
Drinking
Hurry
Know
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The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
Rob Lowe
About
Actor
Age
Appropriate
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning.
Harvey Milk
Personally free
Human activities
Life
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Naira Marley
Forget
Forgive yourself
Mistakes
Time
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Those who don’t believe in Science herd the society to path of physical self destruction; Those who are addicted and obsessed with science pushed the society to the lane of spiritual self destruction.
Naira Marley
Science
Society
Obsessed
Spiritual
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Marian Wright Edelman
Enough
Genuine
Hear
Learn
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Quiet mind
Possess
Calm
Spirit
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
The maiden
Climbed
Branches
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Hannah Arendt
Dangerous thoughts
Thinking
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time
Hannah Arendt
Loving life
Abroad
Your hands
Master
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution
Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries
Power
Street
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah Arendt
Man
Free
Subject
Necessity
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins
Altruism
Because
Born
Generosity
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
Hannah Arendt
Slavery
Social condition
Laboring classes
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the non totalitarian world.
Hannah Arendt
Existence
Non totalitarian world
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Harlan Ellison
Day job
Money
Please yourself
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No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Robert Browning
Begins
Fight
Himself
Man
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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience
Harper Lee
Live
Folks
Myself
Majority
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From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that’s all that matters.
Angélique Kidjo
Moment
Vision
Project
Family
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When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
Lauren Bacall
Big
Decide
Doing
Game
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In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
Lauren Bacall
Actual
Analyze
Been
Childhood
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I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.
Lauren Bacall
Adored
Beside
Breaking
Ever
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
Lauren Graham
Also
Big
Big Deal
Dated
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
Harper Lee
Proud
Yourself
Insulted
Stranger
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.
Harper Lee
Sure
History
Repeating itself
Man
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..the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Heart
No tears
Only blood
Silence
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I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
Robert Orben
Arms
Best
Best Part
Card
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
So subtle
Atmosphere
Opinion
Words
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Talk
Abuses
Essence
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Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Loved you
Better
Know yourself
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oppressed
Enslaved
Wished
Lighter
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No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dropped over
Pillow
Straits
Heart
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Never
Be bullied
Silence
A victim
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein
You deny
Yourself commitment
Life
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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
Harvey Fierstein
Fun
Play someone
Think
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Say to yourself- I was made to be global, achieve things only wildest dreams could conceive and only in that incredulity will I find my true purpose in life.
Audu Maikori
Say
Yourself
Global
Achieve
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Note your enemies’ failure doesn’t mean you yourself will succeed- it simply means we have more failures around us- rather we should focus on being the best we can be!
Audu Maikori
Your enemies
Failure
Succeed
More
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
Lauren Graham
Anybody
Anybody Else
Bring
Else
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Lauren Graham
Actor
Always
Best
Best Friend
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What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.
Lauren Graham
About
Big
Coming
I Remember
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
Gains
Itself
Lean
Learns
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert Greene
Consumption
Goals
Heights
Pleasure
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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
Laurence Sterne
Advantage
Bargain
Discontented
Excellent
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Leon Trotsky
Because
Carries
Certain
Dangers
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky
America
Automobile
Begins
Chain
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky
Ascent
Blind
Consciousness
Forces
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Leonard Cohen
About
Certain
Repose
Sense
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