#himself

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ↗

— John Locke

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

— Louis XIV

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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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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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