"Truly, this world can get on without us,……" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over… — Aristotle
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
• Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
• That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which… — Mary Astell
• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all… — Nancy Astor
• It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',… — David Attenborough
• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by… — Marcus Aurelius
• What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
• We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our… — Paul Auster

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