#himself

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? ↗

— Solomon Short

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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure. ↗

— Ron Reagan

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. ↗

— Theodor Reik

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Teaching others, he corrected himself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ↗