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- Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
- Jane Haddam
- Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
- Joe Clark
- When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
- Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class
- Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
- Sue S. Taylor
- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
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