#selves

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#denying #economic #economic independence #feminism #get

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. ↗

— George Eliot

#god #hand #mercy #none #ourselves

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves. ↗

— Bill Ford

#bad #bull #comes #end #filled

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish

No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#great #great person #person #themselves #thought

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #bunch #committee #edited #everything

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#because #destroyed #falter #freedoms #lose

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#deliberate #own #people #reverse #safely

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american soldiers #character #continue #courage #defend