We can count ourselves lucky if the emerging chaos can be contained in Iraq.

We must talk about ourselves in our own words, on our own terms.

Then again, maybe we re lucky that things aren t worse.

We in the West, we preach the values, the golden light of democracy, that we are the shining example of how it's done.

We see the new constitution as the cornerstone of a rising Iraq.

Sometimes a science will tell something about ourselves, it'll tell us who we are.

So, we've invented ourselves. Of all the animals that we have domesticated, the most important animal that we've domesticated has been us. Okay?

Regardless of the type of housing we occupy, in Hong Kong we are all just sardines.

Much of the time we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world.

Of course, we all have our little indulgences.

We need to remind ourselves that we women today are a vital contributor to the growth of the new India.

Another way for us, as designers, to explore role play is to put ourselves through an experience which we re designing for, and project ourselves into an experience.

But it does. Generally, we haven't got ourselves into this mess through big disasters.

The whites could farm, graze and hunt as they wished, but we black, we were not regarded as responsible to use wildlife.

Many of us shudder in the wake of the collapse of Tower Records and ask ourselves, Are we next?

Our blood will never become Thai blood...and we want to emphasize we are not separating , but we are liberating ourselves...

But ironically, this situation has empowered all of us, because we are considered, as artists, central to the cultural, political, social discourse in Iran.

I'm not a hero, but the path is dark. And so, if we do not burn, who else will light the way?

So at stake is no longer just Iraq, but rather the future of the entire region. We can count ourselves lucky if the emerging chaos can be contained in Iraq.

Mr. Kmoníček (Czech Republic) We consider ourselves a real reform minded country and we have no vested interest in the reform, except one the better functioning of the whole United Nations system.

We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95 percent of torture today is not for political prisoners.

Now we all love to trot out these three mystic warriors as if they were born with the saint gene.

It is for that reason that we consider 2006 to be the year to mobilize all efforts both at the national level and by our bilateral and multilateral partners to rebuild Burundi and to resolutely dedicate ourselves to sustainable development.

Kenya s new constitution won t have much effect unless we Kenyans take a critical look at ourselves.

Perhaps we need to spend some time in contemplation, and articulate to ourselves precisely what we need and expect from our leaders.

Given the seriousness of the situation, we need to ask ourselves the source of this recurring humanitarian crisis and why it takes place repeatedly.

In addition, we consider Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and from parts of the northern West Bank last September to be a positive move.

We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others.

Yet there lives on the ancient claim we win or lose within ourselves. The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow's game.

Ultimately, the spiritual gloom and existential dread that we have come to associate with Eastern Europe are merely an extension of our own.

It is important to note that the MDGs are very similar to the goals that we ourselves try to accomplish within our own economic strategy.

We ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe we can, ourselves, extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every man, woman and child on this planet.

And she realized that she had the great fortune to be born in a country where we take security for granted, where we not only can feed, clothe and house ourselves, but also provide for wild birds so they don't go hungry in the winter.

Now we to ask ourselves which are the large environmental processes that we have to be stewards of to keep ourselves safe in the Holocene?

Why Bipartisanship is Good Politics

Second, we find ourselves in the unusual position of having a global leader the United States that is also the world s biggest debtor.

Yet we economists find ourselves increasingly disturbed by the apparent inadequacy of the neo Marshallian toolkit that we have built to explain our world.

If the result is substantially positive, we regard the person s life as happy if negative, as unhappy.

I'm trying to develop homegrown solutions to our issues because we realize that people from outside can come and help us, but if we don't help ourselves, there's nothing we can do.

And we are in a long, long line of organisms to come to this planet and ask ourselves, How can we live here gracefully over the long haul?

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others, both in our private and in our civic spaces.

We distract ourselves from our misery by running around somewhere, but basically we all have this common misery that we are sort of stuck inside our skins and everyone else is out there.

It's not only about HCV, it's also about what we are doing with our lives, why we are here, whether we love ourselves enough.

Now maybe we want to treat it as metaphorical.

This cannot be regarded as a success.