The first one is about the stories that we tell ourselves.

That's when we convince ourselves that a lie is a truth.

That's when we convince ourselves that a lie is the truth.

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

And what are the stories that we tell ourselves now, as we look forward about where we're going to go.

The United Nations is a good place to convince ourselves that difficult steps are to be taken and that the old ones are not to be taken again.

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

Can we convince this man?

Another favorite delusion in the West is to believe that Iran will surrender if pressure is steadily increased.

Well I think we can persuade people that what is necessary for Britain's long term interests, what is necessary for America's long term interests, is proper engagement with the rest of the world, and taking the action that is necessary.

We tell ourselves that maybe we won t get a toothache after all, even though we know that the odds are that we will.

Should we turn somebody and get them to testify against these other people?

We have to convince our audience that what we're talking about matters.

Yet, further information on how those funds are used is sorely required if we are to convince ourselves of the need to expand the Central Emergency Revolving Fund.

How do we know when we are ourselves?

But we anticipate that, faced with cake tomorrow, our desire for that rich chocolate texture will distort our reasoning so that we might convince ourselves that putting on just a little more weight doesn t really matter all that much.

Let's start by asking How are we going to feed ourselves?

Ourselves.

We can make those choices now, or we can persuade ourselves that peace is too hard or too complex, and then look on resignedly from the sidelines as hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children needlessly die.

But we have failed to convince ourselves that we must overcome the challenges of development, which are, in fact, the root causes of many of the troubles disturbing our planet, and we have failed to commit ourselves to the task.

So what do we want? To become convinced by our deception? I wish!

So what do we do here?

We'll harden ourselves.

We'll get cleaned up.

How have we convinced ourselves that every opinion has to count?

And we try to convince ourselves we really try to convince ourselves they're wrong.

It had potential to really change the way that we saw ourselves, and thought about ourselves.

So, we can give ourselves a gift.

For ourselves.

Let's get small.

Let's give ourselves a little quiz.

What about ourselves?

It is ourselves we are helping.

It is ourselves we are healing.

And we get kind of in on our own con.

We should be hurting ourselves.

Why kid ourselves?

Why delude ourselves?

We are hungry ourselves.

Maya, let's entertain these bores.

We're tidying ourselves.

So we may tell ourselves that the geologists could be wrong, and perhaps no tsunami will hit Padang in the next 30 years, and by then perhaps we will have new and better technologies for predicting them, giving people more time to get to higher ground.

How have we convinced ourselves that every culture has a point of view on these subjects worth considering?

Those developments should not, however, make us complacent, as the road ahead is a long and arduous one.

I call it perpetuation the survival of the species and survival of ourselves,