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• We teach what are called the vigorous virtues -- determination, self-reliance, self-control, and courage.
  This is achieved through the application of mental stress, physical rigor, minute regulation of behavior, pressures, hazards and psychological bonding....
• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Oenone...
• No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
  -- Lenin, 1918...
• Gun control, the opiate of the intellectuals: elitism laced with self-righteousness.
• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. -- Helen Kelle
• Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile... Freedom is irrelevant.
  Self-determination is irrelevant... Death is irrelevant....
• Self starters will not.
• As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need -- tremendous self control.
  -- Ashleigh Brillia...
• diaper seat: article of climbing used by novices who are still learning self-control.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...