#ourselve

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#committed #folly #least #might #ourselves

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#combat #live #ourselves #state #virtue

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#always #american #celebrated #character #could

A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#asia #australia #best #century #challenge

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

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With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#found #going #involved #ourselves #really

The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#article #direction #end #enigmatic #entire

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

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