"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two -- are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked."

Bloom, Harold on academia   

"In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned."

Wilson, A. N. on academia   

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brice, Fanny on affectation
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."

Lubbock, Sir John on affection
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on affection
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"Constant repetition carries conviction."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

Hobbes, Thomas on science   

"Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on vengeance
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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

Foucault, Michel on science
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"Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."

Taylor, Jeremy on science   

"The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on science   

"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."

Richter, Jean Paul on guidance
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"The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity."

Malthus, Thomas Robert on sex   

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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"The greatest success, is successful self acceptance."

Sweet, Ben on self-esteem
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"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

Mortman, Doris on self-esteem
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"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-esteem
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"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

Hoffer, Eric on self-esteem
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"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on self-esteem
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"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem   

"We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them."

Alsaker, Dr. on judgment and judges
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"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

Smith, Stan on confidence
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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"Confidence is a very fragile thing."

Montana, Joe on confidence
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

Johnson, Samuel on confidence   

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

Garvey, Marcus on confidence
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"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

Edgeworth, Maria on confidence
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"One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one."

Landers, Ann on judgment and judges   

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."

Kafka, Franz on judgment and judges   

"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

Dandemis on judgment and judges
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Crane, Frank on friends and friendship
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"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."

Willard, Frances E. on moderation   

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on moderation
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

Voltaire on divorce
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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