#elves

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. ↗

— Washington Irving

#effected #enemy #harm #least #most

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#happened #i #interested #more #people

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. ↗

— William James

#individuals #man #many #recognize #selves

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#actually #bank #citibank #did #get

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#band #black #black sabbath #considered #fun

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#first #hole #into #musically #our

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#did #duty #feel #i #know

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#few #ourselves #problems #solve #together

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. ↗