#selves

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#brazil #enthusiastic #flowers #latins #tenderly

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#envelope #filed #get #life #life is a

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#after #bars #chat #death #else

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #beings #come #doing #face

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here. ↗

— John Doerr

#consumers #do the right thing #does #fiji #get

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#bring #building #doom #doorstep #even

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#few #few things #fifty #found #hardest

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#be happy #eager #evolve #feel #grow

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. ↗

— Patty Duke

#best #forgive #forgiving #get #layer