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- People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
- My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School…
- You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
- It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
- Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get…
- A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
- God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
- Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
- In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
- If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
- The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
- Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in…
- I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will…
- Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
- It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to…
- Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its…
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
- While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he…
- I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
- A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is…
- I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
- We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be…
- Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
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- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov