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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.: The Talmud, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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I am sure care's an enemy to life.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 3
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4
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