Quotes 10481 till 10500 of 12035.
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
― Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-born English writer, 1794–1860; author of the Diary of an ennyueé (1794 - 1860) -
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
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We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
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We could have waited for a donor to appear, but we believe in the spirit of self-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable to carry out this project.
Source: On construction of the Unity Bridge, January 2005 -
We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.
Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 3 (p. 48) -
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
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We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
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