#selves

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #children #explaining #forever #grown-ups

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#lies #meaning #meaning of #our #them

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#conservative #elect #elected #ever #get

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#being #entertainment #i #i think #ourselves

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#english #his #mastery #minds #mislead

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#ends #go #important #into #living