Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. Kennedy
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Escher
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
William Shakespeare
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.
John Dewey
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Victor Cousin
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Robert Bresson
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel
Boldness in itself is genius.
L. Ron Hubbard
[The MBA] is itself a platform for understanding who you are and where you're at.
Tim Butler
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
Robert A. Heinlein
The breathing in of colder air itself can actually cause constriction of the airway, leading to the shortness of breath and wheezing typical of an asthmas attack.
Monica Kraft
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov
The document itself is amazing.
Marc Rotenberg
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
Karl Kraus
That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.
Barbara Hall
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
William Hazlitt
I'm saying basically to hold the stock, don't panic -- it got ahead of itself -- and wait.
Andrew Roskill
Homeownership tends to lend itself toward a more stable environment.
Jack Murray
Attacks on the teachers will not stop unless the government dissociates itself from the perpetrators of the crime.
Prof Aams Arefin Siddique
Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
Eric Hoffer
What he does on the field stands for itself.
Scott Hawkins
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Let nature take its course. Smoking will go away by itself.
Jim Wagner
The DPRK is a chronically food-insecure country. It's never going to produce enough food to feed itself without massively overhauling its agricultural system.
Richard Ragan
If you're asked to provide any information via email you should not do it. Any legitimate financial institution should provide you with the ability to key information on the web page itself.
Greg Jones
We are firmly committed to maintaining commercial-free all the music channels XM itself creates.
Nathaniel Brown
Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.
Timothy Geithner
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
John Lubbock
We believe that the warrant itself was unconstitutional.
James Murphy
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
Indianapolis got the money, and you see where Indianapolis is, but we missed the boat. The city itself would have grown pretty big because of the easy access.
Walter Hayden
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Robert A. Heinlein
The building itself is more a fusion with the landscape.
Martha Thorne
Some things work out and some don't. In this case, another opportunity presented itself.
Gary Burkholder
They were able to isolate and show that the defects that were a concern were really not in the multilayer coating, but more on the substrate itself, which comes down to a cleanliness issue. Still, you can't have the defects, but that's also an issue that's becoming more critical for 193.
Noreen Harned
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
Hastings itself actually provides a lot more jobs than what our labor force shows.
Dee Haussler
Until you stop the supply side, it won't fix itself.
Mike Whalen
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
James Mcbride
I think you will see it repeat itself; it will be more next year and the year after.
John Lyboldt
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
Howard Thurman
There were no injuries, the operation of the flight itself was not disturbed, so we feel this is an appropriate punishment.
David Procopio
Science does have a way of checking itself out. It's harder to get away with a lie in science than it is in life.
Jonathan Moreno
We are announcing today that we will ... license the Windows source code itself.
Brad Smith
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
He filled the manager's shoes because of the unexpected circumstances this club found itself in back in November.
Milan Mandaric
My sense is that technology in and of itself is not a lure, but if you don't have good technology, it's a problem.
Laura Perry
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall
The artifact itself and its contents were in danger of being lost forever.
Terry Garcia
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
The bottom itself wasn't anything exciting. But when it started going higher, it blasted off.
Richard Dickson
I think they need to get someone in there that has experience in this department, has experience with the city itself, and just move forward from there.
Ronald Smith
With the games staged at the new arena, which is an attraction itself, we could have drawn 1,000 more to each game.
Bruce Zoldan
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
History seems to be repeating itself.
James Lago
She actually did what she said she was going to do. When you're trying to attract a job creator, it's important that employers see that the city is investing in itself.
Bob Abberger
What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.
Pema Chodron
Including gifts and the whole date itself I will spend easily over $75.
Brandon Frye
Even some members of the EU itself have publicly expressed opposition to these measures.
Chong Quan
They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself.
Tim Berners lee
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
Walter H. Pater
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
Chuck Klosterman
I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.
Arthur Sylvester
I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because its asset base has significantly limited its flexibility. At a certain level, it's going to lose its ability to distinguish itself from an index fund.
Sonya Morris
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
They actually had more rain than during the cyclone itself.
Jonty Hall
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman
Made a sincere apology and stands by it, and it should speak for itself.
Ron Bonjean
The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.
Peter Alliss
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
My feelings are not about personalities. It's the institution itself. Whether it is a viable institution for this Island anymore is the issue to me.
Tristan Israel
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
The problems are not necessarily inherent in the equipment itself, but in the initial intersection of the new technology and the people who use it.
Michelle Shafer
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis
I'm a pretty big believer that history is likely to repeat itself.
Robert Kotick
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude
I will miss my co-workers, customers and the job itself. I have been a cashier and worked a lot in the crafts area.
Beverly Clark
This is unconscionable. I will not apologize for anything. This is utter nonsense. The way he has handled this is worse than the incident itself.
Duane Smith
We view this as a one-time event that will likely correct itself in Q4.
Tore Svanberg
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Felix Frankfurter
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
Felix Frankfurter
At this time, the best investment the company can make is in itself.
Michael Feuer
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Walter Raleigh, Sr.
It's up to that committee to decide what action it will take, if any. [The resolution] does not, in and of itself, start a process.
Jon Brandt
The Israelis are making a statement that Israel has its own ways and means of defending itself.
Meir Javedanfar
All memory resolves itself in gaze.
Richard Hugo
These animals need to go to a place that actually conducts itself as a sanctuary.
Leana Stormont
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Elie Wiesel
The mayor's statement speaks for itself, ... I have no comment beyond that at this point.
John Dillon
They didn't find anything that is wrong with the highway itself.
Chris Waite
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion.
Ralph Bergengren
You can't want reform more than a country itself does.
Gene Sperling
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Rush Limbaugh
The Rockford area has promoted itself for leisure events and sporting events.
Tom Austin
Lowering the threshold for use of atomic weapons is in itself dangerous.
Sergei Ivanov
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Federico Fellini
The medium itself is so expressive and so ancient and each person has their own style they bring to it.
Karen Bell
Isn't the absence of DNA evidence, given the way the victim has described the crime, in and of itself almost enough to raise a reasonable doubt?
Robert Archer
The cost of the project itself is $155 million.
David Oman
When Covert became a community, you had different people coming in, and, today you have different people coming in. History's really repeating itself right now.
Hannah Baldwin
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
As long as we continue to do our job, take care of our clients and make sure we're giving excellent customer service to the contractors that drive their clients in here, it'll take care of itself.
Stephen Arscott
The mining itself doesn't create that much dust. It's the trucks driving on dirt roads.
James Shelton
We are asking the Food and Drug Administration to halt the sale of more than 75 functional foods that contain ingredients the agency itself has said have not been shown to be safe for use in food.
Bruce Silverglade
Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.
Avi Dichter
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Rod Serling
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
The Talmud
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
We can't compare that with the submarine measurements of the '50s and '60s, but eventually we will have a hard data set to compare with itself. The data we will be collecting will be used to improve climate models.
Ronald Kwok
The features of the property lend itself to passive use.
Dan Stencil
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
Georg Cantor
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
The buzz that is created when you first announce a big event is something that I enjoy immensely. That in itself makes what I do so satisfying.
Nick Orphanos
Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
No country can achieve its own security by relying on itself alone, no matter how advanced its arsenal is and how strong it is.
Sha Zukang
The new government will have to be very careful in how it conducts itself. Under the circumstances it is not a representative government.
Supavud Saicheua
The market doesn't know what to do with itself. In the truth, I'm a bit worried.
Andre Mamed
Hazing is not breaking the rules, it is the rule itself.
Alexander Golts
Despite criticism in the press, we can see that the idea of the New Year holidays has justified itself. Our two-year experience confirms this.
Boris Gryzlov
Look around you, it speaks for itself.
Mariana Boneo
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel
This is going to be a critical component of what the Army does and how the Army fights and how the Army resets itself and trains our folks and makes them ready to go back into the fight.
Scott Welker
The right make-up tools are as important in getting the look you want as the actual make-up itself.
Bobbi Brown
We'll wait until the process is completed, The verdict speaks for itself.
Michael Tigar
The Bible itself displays tension over the issue of women in the ministry.
Gary Parker
We're going to end up with a net increase of 200 parking spaces. The garage itself won't be a complete cure for the parking problems.
Richard Hasko
For a country that prides itself on due process and civil liberties, it's just indefensible.
Anthony D. Romero
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard
Bluntly, the coast can't afford itself.
Jim Oliver
It's fair to say the private residences will be at the very high end because of the nature of the project itself.
Vivian Deuschl
I'm hopeful that this maelstrom has burned itself out. But would this happen in two years? There's no reason to be confident that it wouldn't.
Michael Gennaco
You have an economy that is mending itself with absolutely no inflation pressures.
Richard Gilhooly
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
Derby Brown
It's just something that happened by itself and could've caused a lot of damage to a person.
Jim Seabolt
It's recognition that the board feels comfortable that he's the right guy for the job, that the company has righted itself and is moving in the right direction.
Sanford Bernstein
People have told me that the building is an exhibit unto itself.
David Caruthers
It would be disappointing to see the museum itself go. But we will always have that connection.
Mary Craven
We are challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism, not science itself.
Discovery Institute
We do not believe that the Canadian Embassy itself was specifically targeted.
Bill Graham
Marsh has distinguished itself as a great corporate citizen, and anything that allows it to continue to be viable would be good for our community. Marsh is woven in the fabric of our community. They are active in so many arenas.
Roland Dorson
Although the date on the Web site is already past, the actual deadline is just a couple of days prior to the event itself.
Michael O'halloran
The feeling itself, it is the same. I don't really add the statistics that I had in Japan and the home runs here.
Hideki Matsui
We want the Norton area to be able to support itself.
Mike Bundy
Basically, we had a two-hour meeting where we both came to the same exact solution to how to do the show, which was it had to have a lot of characters, the characters had to be really mysterious and the island itself had to be even more mysterious than they were.
Damon Lindelof
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
This event in itself shows that Vietnamese-U.S. relations have in fact entered a new stage of development.
Phan Van Khai
The team itself is as strong as any we've had. The talent gap is starting to close.
Jeremy Souder
History is repeating itself. File-sharers moved from Kazaa to BitTorrent and now to eDonkey.
Andrew Parker
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Titus Maccius Plautus
I'm very free-market for being a Democrat. I definitely think the market will take care of itself.
David Gonzales
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