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Leon Trotsky

Rachel Carson

Yves Klein

Calvin Coolidge

Barbara Ehrenreich

John Sergeant Wise

John Stuart Mill

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

John Millington Synge

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a personal level, I am a very critical person who looks for defects in myself as well as in others. But, being so critical, I am also quite forgiving. I couldn't recognize my mistakes if I couldn't forgive myself. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Alexander Smith

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

John Sergeant Wise

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

George Matthew Adams

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Norman O. Brown

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Calvin Coolidge

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world… …The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Consider the standard two-person married couple.... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology or even personal inclination. It is practically the definition of marriage. Marriage is socialism among two people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.