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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Self-reliance

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself. True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it.
God helps them that help themselves.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
God the almighty and all terrible, who expects us to do something to help ourselves.
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
If it is to be, it is up to me.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
There's no one to stop you but yourself.
This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

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