#selves

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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