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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.


Walter Lippmann

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OVID Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to ac...
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SáNDOR MáRAI Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot...
UNKNOWN Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
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LYNN HARTMUTH We were not in favor of being in the same division. We are competing against one another and that is...
ED PALMER Illusion doesn't have a beginning nor an end. What we call 'real' is just relative. There is nothing...
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of o...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Our character transforms into whom or what we surround ourselves with
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our ...
ALEXANDER POPE To find ourselves, we must find that which is not of our self
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THOMAS JANE We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit
SUNDAY ADELAJA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot...
JEAN PAUL Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our char...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ou...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
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JONATHAN SWIFT And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi...
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JUSTINA CHEN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
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MARK TWAIN What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...
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DAN BRUSH We monitor it at home from our computers. If something breaks down, we get a phone call, log on, and...
GEORGE FERGUSON That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention...
GARTH STEIN Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gar...
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JOSEPH MUSCAT I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. W...
MAYA ANGELOU We didn't have restraints. We were able to open up our lives, bring what was relevant in our lives t...
DAVID BOREANAZ It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and...
DAISAKU IKEDA Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is...
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PAUL BLOOM We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in...
TARIQ RAMADAN We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
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RUDOLF STEINER A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secre...
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OCTAVIO PAZ We have a lot of character on our team. What we pride ourselves on is being tough. I'm not worried a...
CHRIS WALKER There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
THOMAS BROWNE In order to fit our needs and wants, we are constantly adjusting and altering our behaviors and feel...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles
ANNE SWETCHINE Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles
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SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and e...
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TREVOR LETOWSKI The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are...
MELANIE BROWN Our lives are driven and channeled by our decisions, whatever situation we find ourselves in, we got...
ROSE B MASHIGO We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the c...
M. SCOTT PECK Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the fe...
JEAN PIAGET Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
JOAN RIVERS We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
DEEPAK CHOPRA We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passion...
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WALTER BECKER I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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