#ourselves

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#destruction #dungeons #duty #false #frightened

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cannot #first #forget #had #history

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole. ↗

— Harry Reid

#dug #found #get #hole #i

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#find #learn #nothing #others #ourselves

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#burden #cannot #enough #feelings #here

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned? ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#being #conned #ourselves #point #realize

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#conscious #earth #given #highly #make

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way. ↗

— Will Rogers

#day #different #different way #doing #every