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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. ↗

— David Frum

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. ↗

— Philip Levine

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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. ↗

— Louis XIV

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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