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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things." »Emily Dickinson
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"The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own." »Joel H. Hildebrand
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"Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God." »T. T. Munger
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"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." »Peter Drucker
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"Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder." »Paul Valery
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"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind." »William Shakespeare
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"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy." »Hesiod
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." »Cyril Connolly
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"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company." »Jeremy Collier
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"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period" »Antonio Gramsci
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"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." »Arthur Koestler
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do." »C. C. Colton
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"I want freedom for the full expression on my personality." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"I rely on my personality for birth control." »Liz Winston
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality." »Fran Lebowitz
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius
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"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." »Albert Einstein
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." »Albert Einstein
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"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality." »Victor Frankl
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"personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint." »J. B. Yeats
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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." »Amy Lowell
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"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market." »Erich Fromm
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"The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind." »Erich Sauer
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." »Erich Fromm
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"The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality." »Kahlil Gibran
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"It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place" »Carl Jung
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