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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?
I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.
In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.
We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they're tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones.
When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.
There ain't no way the state of Delaware is gonna tell me how to sign my own license!
I don't make an effort to advance my own profile, everything revolves around the team.
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly.
I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.
The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
My clients can choose their own colours and fabrics to have something unique in their wardrobes.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.
As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own instruments.
One of the main priorities of Russia's economic policy is to create conditions and form our own financial resources for economic modernisation.
The film's star, Eminem, doesn't appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful '8 Mile' is a raw version of the rapper's own story.
Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.
I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.
We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.
I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.
When I was working in the Pentagon, I had to own the recommendations I made up the chain of command.
When I got a bit older, I put on my own plays and forced my friends to perform.
Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.
I'd rather make my own mistakes and pay for them rather than pay for mistakes that are formulistic.
While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.
To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy.
I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream.
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.
Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection.
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
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