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• Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
• Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
  Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves....
• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
  -- Alexander Smith...
• Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap....
• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -- Shakespeare
• It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.