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"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher."

"Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all."

"He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp."

"In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself."

"We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone."

"Nothing in excess, including self-denial."

"No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be."

"I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner."

"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions."

"Congress comes in, in the poles, under 15% or 12%... or even 9% now... about the lowest of any category, even the proverbial used car dealer."

"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."

"No impetus created by any movement whatever can be immediately consumed, but if it finds an object which has a great resistance it consumes itself in a reflex movement."

"A western scholar must de-europeanize himself, and, in view of the most universal use of English, an Englishman must de-Anglicize himself as well."

"There is always more spirit in attack than in defense."

"Helping myself is even harder than helping others."

"Do not limit yourself between black and white, there are thousands of colours in between of them, same process for the yes and no answers, or able and not able."

"...why should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard of it?"

"He has glorified himself by recording that when men were detected in any fault, they would excuse themselves by saying that they must be pardoned if they did anything amiss, for they were not Catos: a…"

"What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others."

"The inner trip is not the sole prerogative of the LSD traveler; it’s the universal experience of TV watchers."