Themselves Quotes
2739 Themselves quotes by 2177 unique authors
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The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
— William Scranton
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Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the…
— William Petty
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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among…
— Jared Diamond
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
— James P. Hogan
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do,…
— Xenophanes
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and…
— Auberon Herbert
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do…
— Damien Hirst
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
— Christine McVie
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to…
— Iris Chang
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By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for…
— Emmett Kelly
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There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an…
— Daniel Smith
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But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not…
— Edith Rogers
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As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and…
— William Henry Ashley
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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger…
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as…
— Philip Levine
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The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
— Lewis Tappan
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The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages,…
— Lewis Tappan
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An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day…
— Moira Kelly
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I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they…
— Julius Rosenberg
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