William Wilberforce Quotes
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.William Wilberforce
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck -
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
Victoria Principal -
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
Basil Rathbone -
Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
Yves Behar
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael -
Selfishness is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama -
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde -
The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
Donald Trump -
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain -
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain -
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain -
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain -
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain
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Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
William Nicholson -
"I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for."
Haruki Murakami -
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
Salman Rushdie -
When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway -
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce