Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Exchange rate understandings are of little use on their own.
There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
No one ever said that I couldn't create my own projects, but no one actually told me that I could be an executive producer, either.
If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
