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  • Omar N. Bradley We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Bootsy Collins We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Billy Beane We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Malcolm X 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.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Brian Austin Green 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.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther King We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Eric Hoffer We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Martin Luther King We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
    Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 april 1963
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ann Coulter We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Drayton What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Georges Bernanos What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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