#selves

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#anyone #cares #got #i #improvisation

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned? ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#being #conned #ourselves #point #realize

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #exist #know #ourselves

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#faults #most #our #ourselves

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#economic #end #ends #infinitum #man

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes? ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#ask #grow #how #investments #investors

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degenerates #every #government #only #people

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#avoid #brought #defend #duty #endeavor

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fear #govern #i #master #may

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bind #consider #country #distinct #each