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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you… — Saint Basil
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will… — Saint Basil
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the… — Saint Basil
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family. — Mario Batali
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the… — Charles Baudelaire
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human… — Simone de Beauvoir
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. — Simone de Beauvoir
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse… — Simone de Beauvoir
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. — Mortimer Adler
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal. — Rob Bell
PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul… — Hans Bender
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own;… — Pope Benedict XVI
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. — A. C. Benson
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and… — Ezra Taft Benson
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham

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