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• Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand… — Honore de Balzac
• Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse
• We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.… — C.S. Lewis
• What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him… — Dorothy L. Sayers
• The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. — C.S. Lewis
• What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The first reason for mans inner slavery is his ignorance, and above all, his ignorance of himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the… — George Gurdjieff

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