We need to look beyond ourselves that's what religion does when it's done right and what astronomy does when it's done right.

BBC: Artist's drawing of Kepler's search space

Does this convention oblige us to take actions beyond attacks on ourselves or on our allies?

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While the results of this plan have been far beyond what we ourselves anticipated -- with the deficit falling by more than twice as much as our original estimates -- they did maintain the balance between spending cuts and revenue increases.

WHITEHOUSE: Testimony of Jacob Lew

But we need to encourage ourselves to go beyond these half measures.

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We also love redemption to see that as bad as we are, we could someday get another chance to be special beyond what anyone or even ourselves imagined.

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Having sold us the Btu edition of Thin Thighs in 30 Days, the peddlers now insist we're peeling off the pounds, or at least saving ourselves from the horror that lies beyond blimp.

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We have grown so accustomed to our tools being nearly perfect that we are shocked when we find ourselves in the no man's land beyond their level of precision.

FORBES: Computing Desire

We like to think of ourselves, and our communities, as innocent victims of sinister forces that are beyond our control.

CNN: Commentary: Illegal immigration is a self-inflicted wound

Sometimes the fault lies not in the stars, but in ourselves: risky behaviors, bad money habits, an inability to think beyond the next pleasurable moment.

FORBES: Straying Off the Path or Changing Direction?

Now that the reckoning is here, it becomes a little easier to see that we fool ourselves with the apparent cheapness of subsidized oil and that a healthy environment is priceless beyond reckoning.

CNN: We are all Gulf victims now