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#selves

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[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.


Alain de Botton


#oneness #others #ourselves #viewpoints #forgiveness

We should not pour muck on ourselves.


Leonid I. Brezhnev


#ourselves #pour #should

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.


Curt Weldon


#able danger #briefed #commission #danger #members

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.


Peter Lewis Allen


#began #better #cast #ever #far

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.


Walter Anderson


#difficult #first #honest #improve #lives

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.


Michelangelo Antonioni


#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.


Corazon Aquino


#clean #criticism #criticisms #find #government

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.


Confucius


#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.


Robert Coover


#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.


George Eliot


#devout #exert #people #themselves #who






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