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  • Benjamin Mkapa Our reason for withdrawal is simple. We are party to too many regional trading organisations. The sum effect of this means that our membership is extremely costly to sustain and we must rationalise our participation in such ventures.
    Source: Reason for withdrawal from COMESA, September 1999
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Andrew Cohen Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Troward Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Bill Clinton Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
    Source: Second inaugural address
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • William John Bennett Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Jean Houston Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
    Jean Houston
     
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  • Matthew Arnold Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Carroll Quigley Our society has so cluttered our lives with artifacts... and organizational structures that moment to moment relationships with nature are almost impossible.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Barbara Amiel Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • John Lennon Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Carl Sagan Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Hybels Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Carson Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bridget Moynahan Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you have good support with your family and friends and nannies.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Bella Abzug Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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