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Themselves Quotes

Nobody tells your story quite like you do.

This word carries a lot of weight around self-determination, whether it's a sweeping, almost poetic claim that a country is itself its own greatest achievement, or the more grounded idea that a field of scholarship should be shaped by the people who actually belong to it.

There's also a sharper, more cautionary use, the idiom about how carelessness leaves people responsible for their own undoing. For more on identity and independence, see our Identity and Autonomy quotes.

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