""Externality" is a different phenomenon from akrasia and doesn't always come with it. The set of desires and actions from which one feels alienated isn't always the same as the set of desires and actions of which one disapproves. It has been pointed out that you can disapprove of something inside yourself but still experience it as yours ("damn it, here I go again!"). In addition, you can approve of something inside yourself but feel like it's not yours ("when the emergency sirens went off, it was as if someone calmer and more reasonable took over and knew just what to do")."

“Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 29, 2015

“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

“Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.”

Source : "Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts" by Michael S. Rosenwald, www.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2013.

“In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”

“To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.”

“We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.”

Source : John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

“Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don’t want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don’t.”