Pride is a sense of worth derived from something that is not organically part of us, while self-esteem derives from the potentialities and achievements of the self.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Category Archives: 0459 – Quote Unquote
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You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.
~ Rollo May
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
~ Rollo May
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Not much is known about the inner life of mushrooms, but we can guess at the presence of a sort of subterranean sociality from the extensive networks of underground filaments that link individual organisms to a vast community of plants, tree roots and other fungi.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belongs to phones.
~ William Gibson
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don’t care what the editor likes or dislikes, I care what the people like.
~ Mickey Spillane
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You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
~ Eric Hoffer
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