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• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Good, Own, Rule, Property, Man

• The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Stands, Women, Own, Man

• Every man is his own hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Own, Man

• The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Our, Us, Own, Modest, Strength, Makes

• If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Earn, Planet, Own, Make

• Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

  Robert Collier

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  Tags in Own, Imagination

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Discovery, Our, Progressive, Own, Ignorance

• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John William Gardner

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Ineffective, Cut, Their, Young, Giving, Ground, Grow, Own, Today, Too, Much, Should, Often, Teaching, Them, Plants

• The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Topics in Democracy, Leadership

  Tags in Social, Direction, Own, Stronger

• Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Good, Own, Reward, Seek, Thing

• Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Eyes, Own, Heart, Someone

• The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Own, Discipline, Poor, Thinking

• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plane, Own, Like, Staff, Soldier

• People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won’t be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

  Robert Mugabe

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  Tags in Own, People, Right, Anyone, Soldier

•     Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Deformities, Add, Vice, Deformity, Own, Enough, Never, Should, Old, Them

• Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Own, Attempt, Break

• My bottom is so big it’s got its own gravitational field.

  Carol Vorderman

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• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Poet, Own, People, Stranger

• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Topics in Art, Nature, Soul

  Tags in Dips, Paints, Into, His, Pictures, Own, Every, Artist, Brush

• If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Seems, Own, Time, Moral, Straight