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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude
Darkness
Poet
Own
Sweet
Poetry
Cheer
Sounds
Sings
Who
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
Ramana Maharshi
Service
World
Own
Our
Render
Greatest
Self-Realization
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
Thoughts
Power
Own
Nothing
Our
Except
Absolutely
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.
Reuven Rivlin
Culture
Own
Society
Other
Analysis
Final
Possibly
See
Compromising
Accept
Without
Does
Dialogue
Listen
Multicultural
Prepared
Reject
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
Impossible
Own
Thinking
Dream
Only
Becomes
Where
Place
Your
Your Dream
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan
Welfare
Own
Possible
Purpose
Existence
As Far As
Far
Should
Eliminate
Need
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose
You
Gift
Own
Think
Back
Earth
Restoring
Give
Bound
Goods
Him
Making
His
Debt
Beggar
Which
Your
Paying
Portion
Belongs
Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
Salman Khan
Style
Own
Believe
Everyone
Way
Something
Individual
Stylish
Very
Personal
Unique
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir
Work
Truth
World
Men
Own
Confuse
Absolute
Point
Point Of View
Absolute Truth
Like
Itself
Representation
Which
View
Describe
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.
Theodore Dalrymple
Great
Mistakes
Past
Own
Our
Considering
Our Lives
Recognize
Scant
Selected
Attention
Importance
Make
Does
Versions
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Us
Choices
Painful
Avoid
Resentment
Lives
Receives
Necessity
Damage
Presents
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Vladimir Lenin
History
Class
Own
Able
Only
Develop
Countries
Effort
The History Of
Working
Working-Class
Shows
Consciousness
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.
Walter Kirn
Go Away
Own
Tend
Con
Blindness
Go
Get
Quietly
Just
Artists
Victims
Ashamed
Reason
Away
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant
Needs
Man
Own
Anarchist
Neighbor
Superfluous
Case
Laws
Only
He
Sure
Because
His
Privately
Them
Ask
Many
Thinks
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert
Me
You
Trust
World
Wish
Own
Must
Advance
Bound
Merits
Stump
Trumpet
Stir
Trust Me
Blow
Your
Enhance
Chance
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
You
Own
Universe
Corner
Only
Self
Improving
Certain
Your
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Man
Country
Own
Poor Man
Like
Foreigner
His
Poor
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
Ann Rule
Me
You
Judge
Walk
Shoes
Own
Books
Write
Judge Me
Heard
Then
Mile
Your
Expression
Ever
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
Mom
Own
Fathers
Fonder
More
Because
Mothers
Than
Children
Certain
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl Jung
Evil
Own
Others
Our
Something
Fact
Because
Becomes
Denied
Hearts
Cannot
Wickedness
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers
Relationship
Change
Treat
Own
Way
Would
Phrase
How
His
Provide
Years
His Way
Question
Cure
Person
Personal
May
Personal Growth
Which
Asking
Use
Professional
Now
Growth
Early
When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.
Charles Spurgeon
Great
Gratitude
Joy
Own
Our
Tell
Would
Great Joy
Remembering
Sorrow
How
Done
Story
Conversion
Little
Used
Deserve
Things
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
Claude McKay
Man
Faithful
Own
He
Individuality
His
Anything
Cannot
Loyal
We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Change
Become
Own
Positions
Complacent
Our
We Cannot
Status
Status Quo
Comfortable
Effect
Quo
Cannot
Meaningful
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
David Wilkerson
Love
World
Problems
Christ
Stress
Chasing
Own
Down
Once
Those
Run
About
Pursuing
Passionately
Were
Burdened
After
Interests
Riches
Who
Many
Now
Things
One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
Denis Leary
Great
Care
Own
Desperately
One Thing
About
Firefighters
Equipment
dont Care
Help
Thing
Need
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Own
Others
Our
Easy
Importance
Overestimate
Very
Owe
Achievements
Comparison
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