“ The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. ”
- Ethel Wilson- Copy
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“ Along the way of our service to others and community, we learn that a very large side benefit is an enormous sense of personal satisfaction, personal purpose and personal worth. ”
- Brian O’Connell- Copy
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“ Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad. ”
- Andy Warhol- Copy
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“ Personal contact will accomplish ten times what a cold letter will. Use that personal touch! ”
- John J. Wilson- Copy
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“ There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God, he is a disappointing God. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion; the mind that grows could not predict the time, the means, the mode of that spontaneity; God enters by a private door into every individual. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ One of the false dichotomies of modern life is that between work and personal time. It is widely held that there is a set of skills that we need for one and quite a different set that we need for the other. But this is not true. The skills of problem-solving, for example are of great value in our personal lives, and overcoming stress and anxiety is a key skill in our work… ”
- Gillian Butler and Tony Hope- Copy
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“ Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. ”
- Lenore Hershey- Copy
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“ My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ”
- Edith Sitwell- Copy
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“ But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. ”
- William Wilberforce- Copy
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“ Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong. ”
- Tyron Edwards- Copy
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“ All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ One can always point to a time, a choice, an act that set the tone for a life and changed a personal destiny. ”
- Carol O’Connel- Copy
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“ I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. ”
- Clare Booth Luce- Copy
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“ There is nothing that is personal and private, it is all universal. All that stuff we share but don't admit to, and don't talk about…what is that about? ”
- Ani DiFranco- Copy
- 2K
“ We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
- 478
“ While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities. ”
- Bernard Weisberger- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.". ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
- 3.3K
“ My own personal position is that it's much more special to wait for the person who you're married to. ”
- Clay Aiken- Copy
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