#selves

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#although #convinced #even #guilt #judges

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#desire #does #experience #having #must

Things explain each other, not themselves. ↗

— George Oppen

#explain #other #themselves #things

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#men #themselves #union

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing. ↗

— Suze Orman

#america #american #american dream #around #came

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#awareness #capitalists #collusion #commit #country

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation. ↗

— Carre Otis

#commit #equality #fought #hard #i

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#crucify #fear #ourselves #regret #thieves

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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