selves

• “And in _Physical_ Enquiries, we must endevour to follow Nature in the more _plain_ and _easie_ ways she treads in the most _simple_ and _uncompounded bodies_, to trace her steps, and be acquainted with her manner of walking there, before we venture our selves into the multitude of _meanders_ she has in _bodies of a more complicated_ nature; lest, being unable to distinguish and judge of our way, we quickly lose both _Nature_ our Guide, and _our selves_ too, and are left to wander in the _labyrinth_ of groundless opinions; wanting both”

  Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

• “If we are going to be politically correct about what we call our selves, we should call ourselves United Statesians.”

  Think Progress » Note to Rep. Virgil Goode: Keith Ellison Is Not An Immigrant

• “This challenging conference topic also reminds us that who we are -- the very center of what we call our selves -- is a product of the complex interelationships among what we think, what we feel, and the environment that surrounds us.”

  Discovering our Selves: The Science of Emotion

• “The notion that technology was supposed to allow us to "explore our artistic selves" is nonsense, he says.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Two Years Before the Repast

• “An historical failure as a Nation to protect our selves from the greatest threat of all, extreme ignorance, hubris and greed in power. whispered on the whirlwind .....”

  Brennan: Cheney wrong to criticize Obama

• “I'm not sure I necessarily agree with all of her points -- my thought regarding the character's shadow selves is not that they are a literal expression of a factual inner self, but a depiction that illustrates how that person fears being perceived, generally.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “But comparing the video to my boy of today, I realize it was a different child – a different level of the same child – and the prospect of losing the child I have today to his 17, 19, 24-month old selves is gutwrenching!”

  Hello, Goodbye | Her Bad Mother

• “This whole notion of multiple selves is still very strange and alien to me.”

  Song of My Selves

• “Getting all together and bearing your true selves is even moreso.”

  That’s Me In The Corner | Her Bad Mother

• “In fact, the capacity to spawn multiple selves is central to pleasure.”

  First Person Plural

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