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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. — Aldous Huxley
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. — Thomas Huxley
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. — Henrik Ibsen
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. — Washington Irving
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie?… — Brandon T. Jackson
Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to… — Curtis Jackson
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda -… — Curtis Jackson
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation,… — Henry James
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. — Thomas Jefferson
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient. — Mahalia Jackson
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life. — Naveen Jain
As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is...… — Naveen Jain
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. — Thomas Jefferson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough… — Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind… — Thomas Jefferson
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. — Bruce Jenner
It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves. — Jewel
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. — Steve Jobs
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of… — Steve Jobs
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. — Billy Joel
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. — Elton John

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