#elf

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#designer #forward #got #i #i do

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belief #doubt #faith #history #inquiry

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. ↗

— George H. Mead

#animal life #deal #does #forms #great

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body. ↗

— George H. Mead

#characteristic #distinguishes #itself #object #objects

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct. ↗

— George H. Mead

#becomes #character #conduct #gives #group

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#be original #because #being #being yourself #exactly

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. ↗

— Mencius

#becomes #great #great man #greater #his

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#answer #ask #before #going #helpful

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? ↗

— Herman Melville

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