#itself

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cocoon #dwell #hermit #itself #mind

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#beauty #flaw #itself

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

#dreaded #gospel #greatly #had #having

The question of sex will take care of itself. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#itself #question #sex #take #take care

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#excellence #exists #itself #life #maybe

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#good #itself #others #states #understanding

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#does #itself #others #states #understand

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#challenge #i #itself #mass #mass media

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#america #appropriate #bring #empathy #example

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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