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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Competition
Mrs. Jamieson

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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Creativity
Gerald G. Jampolsky

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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Humankind
Elizabeth Janeway

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
Newspapers
Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Truth
Thomas Jefferson

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Friends and Friendship
Thomas Jefferson

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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Exercise
Thomas Jefferson

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Jefferson

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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
Stupidity
Jewish Proverb

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Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
Modesty
Jewish Proverb

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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.
Complaints and Complaining
Jewish Proverb

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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Samuel Johnson

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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
Calamity
Samuel Johnson

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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Army and Navy
Samuel Johnson

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For who is pleased with himself.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain
Samuel Johnson

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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Humankind
Samuel Johnson

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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride
Samuel Johnson

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson

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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Bores and Boredom
Samuel Johnson

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Self-worth
Janis Joplin

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Expectation
Michael Jordan

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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Charity
Joseph Joubert

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