#ourselves

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#experience #literature #lived #ourselves #sole

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ↗

— George Soros

#defeat #earth #external #getting #most

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ↗

— Jean Guitton

#differs #divisible #each #every #exists

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#enough #granted #large #large enough #manage

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. ↗

— James Monroe

#condition #country #existence #had #happy

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life. ↗

— Judith Wright

#create #difficult #experience #hungry #less

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#get #i #i think #know #our

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#evil #good #good people #half #let us