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  1. We Tell Ourselves

    We Tell Ourselves is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released in June 1992 as the first single from Black's album The Hard Way. The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in August 1992, behind "Boot Scootin' Boogie" by Brooks and Dunn and also number-one on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. It was written by Black and Hayden Nicholas.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of we tell ourselves in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of we tell ourselves in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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  1. Danielle Donoho:

    Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'

  2. Peter McWilliams:

    To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

  3. Eric Roberts:

    One of the most documented risk factors for having lead exposure is a kid living in a house that was built before the 1978 ban on lead paint, and we tell ourselves, 'well, California is new. It doesn't have old structures.'.

  4. Jimmy Kimmel:

    They're listening to the NRA, they're listening to the people who write them checks, who keep them in power because that's the way politics work. That's the idea we settle on, that's what we tell ourselves, but it doesn't have to be that way. Not for this.

  5. Oliver Sacks:

    We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

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