#selves

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#around #blow #down #dynamite #making

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#also #avail #bring #help #opportunity

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#closed #dignity #face #had #humiliate

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#civilization #entirely #last #our #ourselves

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. ↗

— Eleanor Farjeon

#events #like #pass #repeat #seasons

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously. ↗

— Anna Faris

#i #i do #like #movies #ones

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#being #even #inhabit #land #mysterious

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ↗

— George Farquhar

#fortunes #get #government #heads #hearts

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#being #force #forces #longer #manipulated

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. ↗

— David Brin

#civilization #could #culture #down #feed