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- Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
- R. D. Laing
- I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), (attributed)
- Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- Alain van der Heide
- Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.
- Franz Xavier Kroetz
- I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
- Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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