#elf

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#faithful #fell #first #himself #love

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. ↗

— Colin Powell

#first #help #people #problem #solve

Self-love seems so often unrequited. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#seems #self-love #unrequited

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#cars #distract #everything #good #good way

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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