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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of we tell ourselves in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of we tell ourselves in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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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.'.
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.
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.'
Sarah Silverman really lives entirely in anxiety, in that state we all get in occasionally of' what if ?' we tell ourselves horror stories and that's anxiety... and there's no space for anything else.
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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