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The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Negotiation
Konrad Adenauer

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Love
Jean Anouilh Ardele

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Bores and Boredom
Charles Baudelaire

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Awareness
Walter Benjamin

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
Change
Henri L. Bergson

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Bores and Boredom
Gerald Brenan

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
Giving
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Colleges and Universities
Thomas Ehrlich

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Honesty
Sigmund Freud

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Life and Living
Paul Gauguin

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Belief
Frank Gifford

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Thoughts and Thinking
Aldous Huxley

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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Bores and Boredom
Soren Kierkegaard

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
Self-knowledge
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Suffering
Mother Teresa

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Writers and Writing
Iris Murdoch

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
Service
Earl Nightingale

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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Imitation
Pablo Picasso

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Politicians and Politics
Jean Rostand

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Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
Maturity
Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Safety
Seneca

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Obscurity
Lionel Trilling

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.
Risk
Source Unknown

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Service
Pope Boniface VIII

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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Duty
Oscar Wilde

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