#itself

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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