Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Quotes to Explore
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
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I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
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The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].
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[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
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Patience protects you from deception
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We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
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The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
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Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
