Alan Greenspan Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Self Quotes

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.

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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Self Quotes

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Self Quotes , Way Quotes

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , Games Quotes

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Hands Quotes

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Self Quotes , Athletic Quotes

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Self Quotes , Identity Quotes

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Self Quotes , Sea Quotes

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Self Quotes , Choices Quotes

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Self Quotes , Perfect Quotes

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Development Quotes

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Self Quotes

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Simple Quotes , Self Quotes

Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Passion Quotes , Self Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Self Quotes , Purpose Quotes

There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes