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  • Albert Camus We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina 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.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Benjamin Watson We are God's children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein 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.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Brad D. Smith We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • James Madison We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Arthur Peacocke We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Will Rogers We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Donald Curtis We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
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  • Baba Kalyani We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Albert Camus We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Troward We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • James Baldwin We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Paul Boese We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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