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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first… — David Attenborough
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… — Paul Auster
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes… — Diane Ackerman
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's… — Diane Ackerman
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. — Diane Ackerman
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own… — Michele Bachmann
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be… — Christian Bale
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV. — Alan Ball
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? — Amelia Barr
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. — Martha Beck
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our… — Robert Foster Bennett
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to… — Mortimer Adler

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