#ourselves

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ↗

— Albert Pike

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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. ↗

— David Strathairn

#culture #film #learn #literature #our

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. ↗

— Madame Swetchine

#fancy #far #more #needs #only

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#defend #else #i #i think #idea

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#birth #death #did #guests #may

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#america #came #i #i came #ourselves

As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#anything #arenas #audience #clubs #front

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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