Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1211.
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
A Way in the World (2012) 8
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