Itself Quotes
2191 quotes by 1729 authors
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The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
— David Whyte
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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words…
— Marianne Wiggins
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The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.
— Roy H. Williams
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Writing has to support itself.
— V.S. Naipaul
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Democracy must learn to defend itself.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen…
— Paul Davies
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So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward…
— Paul Davies
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will…
— Propertius
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I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
— Grace Paley
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There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they…
— Anne Bancroft
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By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent,…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon…
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but…
— Ernst Mach
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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
— Stefan Zweig
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
— Jack Dee
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To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
— Kathe Kollwitz
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The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
— Lance Morrow
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There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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