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Life itself is the proper binge.
Life and Living
Julia Child

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Age and Aging
Lydia M. Child

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
Action
Chinese Proverb

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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Enemies
Chinese Proverb

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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Parents and Parenting
Chinese Proverb

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Goals
Queen Christina

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For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Uncategorised
Winston Churchill

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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Wordiness
Winston Churchill

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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
America
John Ciardi

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friends and Friendship
Marcus T. Cicero

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Critics and Criticism
Marcus T. Cicero

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Lies and Lying
Marcus T. Cicero

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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Value
Marcus T. Cicero

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Suicide
E. M. Cioran

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Mind
E. M. Cioran

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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Self-respect
Joe Clark

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
Fear
Claudius Claudianus

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No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Discipline
Claudius

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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Respectability
Eldridge Cleaver

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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Pressure
Sebastian Coe

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Sympathy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Marriage
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Friends and Friendship
Charles Caleb Colton

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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Friends and Friendship
Confucius

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Self-control
Confucius

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun