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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Ecology
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Fear
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal
Benjamin Rush

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Freedom of Speech
Salman Rushdie

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom
Bertrand Russell

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Meaning of Life
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Life and Living
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Inaction
Zen Saying

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Stubbornness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Fools and Foolishness
Seneca

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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Grief
Seneca

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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Agents
William Shakespeare

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sorrow
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Gossip
Liz Smith

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Power
Gloria Steinem

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Solitude
Laurence Sterne

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Power
Jonathan Swift

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Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
Misfortunes
Publilius Syrus

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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Expediency
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Either sex alone is half itself.
Men and Women
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Sin
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Past
Dylan Thomas

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No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
Zen
Tilopa

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Wish and Wishing
Jean Toomer

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Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
Desire
Thomas Troward

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