Itself Quotes
2191 Itself quotes by 1729 unique authors
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
— Jane Addams
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
— Mortimer Adler
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
— John Berger
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to…
— John Berger
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
— Henri Bergson
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment…
— Ben Bernanke
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the…
— Ben Bernanke
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
— Claude Bernard
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I…
— Halle Berry
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its…
— Annie Besant
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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows…
— Annie Besant
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is…
— Annie Besant
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral…
— Annie Besant
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Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less…
— Annie Besant
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