There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
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According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
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A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
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The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
“The self does not exist “from its own side,” [...] as an object that can be isolated and defined. The more you… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
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