4,826 Quotes About Self

  • Author William J. Clinton
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    In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

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  • Author William J. Clinton
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    It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in recent years. There is too much of it, and we must do much more to stop it." "The fact is that employer sanctions have been in the law...since 1986 but no prior administration has made a serious attempt to enforce them.

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  • Author Adelle Davis
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    As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

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  • Author Anita Desai
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    Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

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  • Author Ann Druyan
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    By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

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  • Author Annie Dillard
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    The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

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  • Author Anthony Daniels
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    It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

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