Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 1905.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
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We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
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We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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We are God's children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
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