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We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection. — Sherry Turkle

There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm. — Moon Jong-up

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. — Penelope Lively

Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its own magnificence. — W.B.Yeats

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity. — Jonathan Franzen

A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk — Anne Perry

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good. — James McGreevey

Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful. — Rob Liano

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own. — Bradley Joseph

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions. — James Lileks

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future. — Herbert Hoover

Process. It's as beneficial, on its own level, as the hybridization of different strains of maize or chickens. — Aldous Huxley

Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own? — Greg Gifune

Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality. — Lord Byron

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure. — Myles Munroe

All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. — Rumi

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. — Martin Heidegger

Each couple is its own vaudeville act. — Zadie Smith

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. — George Armitage Miller

Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space. — Therese Of Lisieux

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. — Zora Neale Hurston

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. — P.L. Travers

Force without reason falls of its own weight. — Horace

A picture is never anything but its own plural description. — Roland Barthes

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember. — Elizabeth Berg

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — Walter Bagehot

The younger generation forms a country of its own. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being ... ... tarnished.
Mankind can no longer survive on its own. — Robin Alleyna

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) — Edward Abbey

It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap. — Orson Scott Card

Every eye makes its own perception. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle. — Wes Fesler

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. — Jesse James Garrett

Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. — Rowan Atkinson

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. — Laird Barron

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo

The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution. — Ian McEwan

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. — Pete Domenici

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external. — Isaac Newton

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. — Euripides

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae. — Erri De Luca

You never find virtuosity for its own sake. — Daniel Hope

Courage easily finds its own eloquence. — Plautus

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. — George Eliot

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own. — Germaine Greer

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. — Robert Farrar Capon

Real danger had its own taste, vivid as lemon juice, by contrast with the weak lemonade of imagination. — Diana Gabaldon

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. — William Carlos Williams

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues. — Baltasar Gracian

Its not about being included. It about creating your own space and including yourself and then finding other people that are like okay. — Sophia Amoruso

Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver

The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn — David Nicholls

By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction. — Peter Heather

Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There — David Weber

Government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you. — V.S. Naipaul

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius

Monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment. — Frederic Bastiat

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way — Bertrand Russell

Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit. — Anita Shreve

The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own. — Charlie Huston

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security. — Stephen Harper

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature. — Seneca.

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. — Albert Einstein

The street has its own use for things. — William Gibson

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. — Ada Lovelace

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

Silence has its own colour to paint the truth — Munia Khan

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. — Anonymous

Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days. — Ed Greenwood

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way. — Conor Maynard

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path — Tahir Shah

Every cell in a dying body winks out at its own pace. — Anthony Doerr

Doing beautiful things is its own reward. — Teller

Weigh each heart on its own," I shouted, "for how many of us would pass into the Afterlife if Osiris weighed our hearts with those of our akhu? — Michelle Moran

People are like flowers
they don't all have to be the same. Everything blooms according to its own nature. — Yuu Watase

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. — Frans Lanting

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way. — Margaret Craven

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway. — Steven Magee

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own — Jay Griffiths

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven. — Andy Hargreaves

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little — Cleve Jones

To walk at the side of an amazing woman is a journey all its own, — Debora Geary