#selves

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#last #long #main #much #people

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#had #help #myths #navigate #now

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#basis #coming #commitment #consciousness #joins

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#anxiety #ask #attacking #basis #citizens

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. ↗

— James Buchan

#because #explain #fellows #fine #lot

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

#bad #create #fool #misery #moods

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#awesome #book #come #diving #down

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#educate #lives #object #prepare #their