#himself

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ↗

— William James

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. ↗

— Sergei Prokofiev

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

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Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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