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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Robert Benchley
Because
Call
Door
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
Become
Best
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins
Atheists
Authority
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
Richard Dawkins
About
Among
Argue
Critics
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.
Robert Orben
Insecure
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Line
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It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
Harvey Fierstein
Nice
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Diversity
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!
Audu Maikori
Fool
Who ask
Confident
Pride
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.
Lauren Graham
Acting
Always
American
American Idol
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Laurence Sterne
Men
Pursuit
Rest
Themselves
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
Guides
Manners
Morals
Others
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Laurence Sterne
Companion
Lay
Lays
Many
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
Back
Character
Conditions
Defined
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May
Capacity
Development
Freedom
Hand
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The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.
Leon Trotsky
Before
Changes
Classes
Determined
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.
King Sunny Ade
Young ones
Fear
God
Respect themselves
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.
Charlize Theron
I think
Women
Very scared
Celebrate
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When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.
Liam Payne
About
Does
Enjoying
Getting
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
Men
Know themselves
Longer fools
Wisdom
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis
Art
Dancing
Stands
Express themselves
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Havelock Ellis
Parent
Train
Children
Equal importance
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
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Had
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
About
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Fancy
Give
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Thriftless
People
Californians
Nothing
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Before
Bright
Faint
Feel
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Let us see more in others than they see in themselves, there is no greater gift to give one another.
Wendy Luhabe
See more
Others
Themselves
Greatest gift
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The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
Louis XIV of France
Above
Ambition
Danger
Elevate
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The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.
Rollo May
About
Always
Answer
Become
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It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.
Rollo May
Age
Degree
Everyone
Fact
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I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
Keanu Reeves
Able
Also
Being
Changing
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx
Absolutely
Change
Circumstances
Different
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Despite where we are, we have the ability to bring ourselves to another level when we choose to.
Phuti Mahanyele
Have
Ability to
Bring ourselves
Level
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People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
Marcus Samuelsson
Causes
Family
Feed
Might
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
Robert M. Pirsig
Billions
Carbon
Chemistry
Compounds
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Enjoy
Here
Know
Order
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Care
Cultivate
Eyes
Garden
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Masculinity is not fragile. Masculinity is not toxic. It’s not fundamentally pillaging. It’s not fundamentally rape culture and exploitation. I like the masculine spirit. It is necessary. Dear men & boys, may we continue to show up in excellence and be our best selves.
Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph
Masculinity
Fragile
Fundamentally pillaging
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One of the disadvantages of being young is that most of the tragedy you’ll face still lies ahead in your future We need to prepare ourselves and those around us to embrace these challenges and overcome them Only then, will we be ready to change the world
Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph
Disadvantages
Tragedy
Face
Future
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I listened to someone say that the generation of our parents got it wrong with us. And that many of us have gotten it wrong with our own selves. Please, let’s pay more national attention to the children, the future of our country.
Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph
Generation
Parent
Wrong
Children
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Body
Come
Crying
House
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Jackson Pollock
Different
Go
Matter
Modern
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.
Ruth Negga
Actor
Different
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Like
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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
James A. Michener
Else
Fail
Find
Journey
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen
Anxious
Bound
Circumstances
Improve
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You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
James Brown
Care
God
Help
Helps
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never know
Love
Parents
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We’re not going to be sitting around waiting for something to happen. We’re going to make things happen for ourselves.
Herb Brooks
Going
Sitting around
Happen
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
Rosa Luxemburg
Believe
Cause
Colour
Deeply
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
Rosa Parks
Accepting
Attempted
Begins
Crow
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean
Acting
Express
Great
Logical
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Horace Greeley
Men
Great riches
Culture
Business
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