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• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''

  David Mamet
  American Playwright (1947 - )
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• We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

  Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
  Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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• We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

  Ben Foster
  American actor (1980 - )
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• We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

  Prince Philip
  British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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• We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  American writer (1890 - 1937)
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• We live on the leash of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman
  American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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• We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

  Kahlil Gibran
  Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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• We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

  Anna Freud
  Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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• We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

  W. Phillips
   
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• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  The Weight of Glory (1949)

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

  Menander of Athens
  Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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• We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

  Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)

  David Gemmell
  British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Owen Meredith
  British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1802 - 1873)
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• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• circumstances
• inconceivable
• intelligence
• consequences
• uncorrupted
• meditation

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