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To regard human beings as tools — as instruments — for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker — they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
Alfred Korzybski
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Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

j. g. ballard

— "Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century" originally published in Zone (1992)

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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

philip james bailey

— Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Country Town.

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Est is subsumed under 'other self-improvement groups'. The latter probably comprise groups for which Paul Heelas coined the term 'self-religions': groups which offer techniques and practices which encourage experience and perfection of the self (Heelas 1982; 1984; 1988).


— Elisabeth Arweck (2006). Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions. Routledge. p. 171-172. ISBN 978-0415277549. 

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Self religions. A term devised by Paul Heelas to denote a group of religions and self-improvement organizations that aim to develop the 'self'.


— Chryssides, George D. (2006). The A to Z of New Religious Movements. Scarecrow Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-0810855885. 

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Beginning with the concern with self-expression in the 1970s, when cultural developments encouraged self-exploration, the New Age developed from what has been described as self-religions such as EST, a self-improvement method based on Erhard Seminars Training.


— Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham (2012). Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0521196062. 

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Est is subsumed under 'other self-improvement groups'. The latter probably comprise groups for which Paul Heelas coined the term 'self-religions': groups which offer techniques and practices which encourage experience and perfection of the self (Heelas 1982; 1984; 1988).


— Elisabeth Arweck (2006). Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions. Routledge. p. 171-172. ISBN 978-0415277549. 

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Beginning with the concern with self-expression in the 1970s, when cultural developments encouraged self-exploration, the New Age developed from what has been described as self-religions such as EST, a self-improvement method based on Erhard Seminars Training.


— Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham (2012). Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0521196062. 

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National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.


— Richard Rorty - Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998

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This is how they suck you in, they offer these innocuous-seeming self-improvement courses for 40 bucks, then they start to interest you in Dianetic auditing..It's a kind of crack psychotherapy.


— David S. Touretzky — Alter, Alexandra (July 2, 2005). "Scientology: What's Behind the Hollywood Hype?". Miami Herald. 

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