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We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
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 could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe -
We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983) -
We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?
Cosmos (1980) -
We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852) -
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
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We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
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