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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. — David Foster Wallace
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is… — Shirin Ebadi
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. — Jim Sensenbrenner
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific… — David Hilbert
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. — Jean Piaget
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it… — Kenneth Grahame
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid… — Seth Low
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. — Junichiro Tanizaki
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. — George Berkeley
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. — Damon Albarn
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the… — George Grosz
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. — David O. McKay
The principal cause of war is war itself. — C. Wright Mills
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. — Jean Toomer
Business is in itself a power. — Garet Garrett
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. — Dale Dauten
Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out. — Rosser Reeves
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. — Robertson Davies

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