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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
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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.''
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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
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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.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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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.
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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.
Source: The Weight of Glory (1949) -
We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Source: Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)
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