Itself

The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself…. ❋ Friedman, Elizabeth (1994)

This action of fundamental life manifests itself as a _polarization_ of the internal personality: almost at a point of crystallization, around which, provided there be homogeneous material and an undisturbed environment, _the definitive form composes itself_. ❋ Maria Montessori (1911)

For if itself were a bad self to begin with all such advance of _itself_ would only make it worse. ❋ Francis Sydney Marvin (1903)

In vital activity we see, then, that which subsists of the direct movement in the inverted movement, _a reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself_. ❋ Henri Bergson (1900)

Larkin touched one, and it immediately drew itself in, -- really _swallowed itself_; for these little things take this way of saving themselves from harm. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)

'_But_ since our method of interpretation, after preparing and arranging a history, does not content itself with examining _the opinions and desires_ of THE MIND -- [hear] -- like common logic, but also inspects THE NATURE of THINGS, we so regulate the mind that it may be enabled to _apply itself_, in every respect, correctly to _that nature_.' ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

Hooker teacheth us, (482) that the service of God, in places not sanctified as churches are, hath not in itself (mark _in itself_) such perfection of grace and comeliness, as when the dignity of the place which it wisheth for, doth concur; and that the very majesty and holiness of the place where God is worshipped, bettereth even our holiest and best actions. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

The UN itself now says that the school \itself was not hit, nor its grounds, nor the building, and no one in the school was hit by the Israelis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the customary morality, that which education and opinion have consecrated, is the only one which presents itself to the mind with the feeling of being _in itself_ obligatory; and when a person is asked to believe that this morality _derives_ its obligation from some general principle round which custom has not thrown the same halo, the assertion is to him a paradox; the supposed corollaries seem to have a more binding force than the original theorem; the superstructure seems to stand better without, than with, what is represented as its foundation. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

The term itself comes from the Greek word '' apokruphos '' ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word itself comes from the Latin word “senior”, which is a comparative adjective meaning older and its use in Spanish has recently been amplified as a result of its use in English. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word itself comes from the Greek word aspharagos, which derived from the Persian word asparag, meaning sprout or shoot and was used to refer to all tender shoots. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The word itself comes from the Greek words angeion, \ "vessel\", and graphein, ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word itself comes from the Italian word fascio, meaning a bundle of firewood tied strongly about an axe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term itself comes from the Greek word '' apokruphos '' ( "hidden" or "concealed"), and although they have an actual history and literary value, the fourteen books which make up the Apocrypha have been rejected as canonical by both the Jewish faith and most denominations of the Christian church due to historical, geographical, or literal inaccuracies; the teaching of doctrines which contradict inspired Scripture; and a lack of elements and structure which give genuine ❋ Unknown (2010)

The term itself came from Federico Fellini's 1960 film, La Dolce Vita where a character plays the part of a photographer and is named Paparazzo. ❋ Kate Kelly (2011)

Whether someone self identifies as a Dreamer or is labeled as such, the term itself has become any other stereotype that overpowers that person's individuality. ❋ Erick Huerta (2012)