- Nov 07, 2020
Own Quotes
What's uniquely yours, described in your own words.
These quotes center on individuality, from treating every person as their own separate world to musicians moving on to pursue their own separate projects after a group disbands. For related lines on personal identity, see Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every region in the world faces challenges - and Africa is hugely diverse, so its own challenges are varied.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
- Behaves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
- Betrays
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
- Denies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020