#themselves

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#any #being #danger #dependent #i

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#controversy #details #enlightening #important #more

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world. ↗

— Joseph Mitchell

#buyer #buyers #considered #cotton #dad

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#bible #commands #direct #exhortations #god

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career. ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedians #comfort #comfort zone #find #rest

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#enough #find #make #men #opportunities

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. ↗

— Heraclitus

#cattle #eternal #fame #goal #like

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me. ↗

— Judith Moore

#anyone #feel #i #keep #me

There is nothing a woman can't do. Men might think they do things all by themselves but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them. ↗

— Marjorie Joyner

#guiding #helping #men #might #nothing