Albert Einstein Quotes, Self Quotes, Care Quotes

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

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Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Museums Quotes , Self Quotes

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Assessment Quotes , Self Quotes

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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

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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values

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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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