our own selves
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“If we don’t act soon … we will feel in our own selves that we will have lost everything,” says Monique Middleton, vice chair of the Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024
We really want to do it for our own selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
It’s just making people aware of it and even our own selves.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
Dared us to be self-facing while remaining in the world, to make work that was by, for and about our own selves, never hagiography.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
We are supposed to be calling the shots here, but it doesn’t look to me like we’re in charge of a thing, not even our own selves.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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