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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. – Alexander Tyler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. – Mike Tyson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. – Sam Walton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned. – A. N. Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. – Robert Anton Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All men think all men are mortal but themselves. – Edward Young	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hate no one hate their vices, not themselves. – J. G. C. Brainard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. – Herbert W. Boyer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. – Maria Edgeworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. – T.S. Elliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. – Albert Guinon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. – James R. Lowell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. – Marcus Valerius Martialis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. – Patricia Moyes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin. – Susan Partnow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. – Friedrich von Schiller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. – Christina Stead	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better do no harm. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement. – Federico Fellini	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves. – John Weigel	added by acronimous 14 years ago
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy. Today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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