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The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

The body has a mind of its own.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Every man is his own hell.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.