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I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

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Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

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