Quotes 9081 till 9100 of 10439.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.
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We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
Source: Moon Palace (2010) 119 -
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
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We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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